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Meet Cecilia

Diagnosis at Eight: Fruity Breath Means Diabetes. When I was eight years old, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.…

Meet Elliot

For Elliot, a cure would mean extra culinary—and cultural—benefits. “A cure for type 1 diabetes for an Asian-American like me…

DC Fall Internship

Breakthrough T1D Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Chapter interns will be exposed to a wide variety of development practices and have a…

Meet Beth

It started with a few weeks of odd symptoms. Looking back they were text book, of course.

Meet Cassie

“She’s thirsty!”  I pleaded desperately around midnight to the on-call nurse.  Thirsty is not usually a condition that strikes fear…

Meet Juliet

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when I was 5 years old. It was my first or second week…

Meet Alvina

My first contact with Breakthrough T1D happened in Death Valley, CA in October 2004.  I watched my then-26 year old…