My name is Tama and I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 43 years ago. It was a month before my sweet 16th birthday, and my family was getting ready to go on a ski trip. I was fortunate to bypass the typical hospital visit, as many with type 1 experience, because once my symptoms started my mother was savvy enough to get me to our pediatrician quickly. They then sent us to an endocrinologist's office in San Diego where I was able to be put on the first trial of recombinant DNA human insulin. 

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