Stories from people navigating type 2 diabetes — diagnosis, treatment, caregiving, and the ordinary days in between.
4 stories
Caregivers
The diabetes numbers improved. Meanwhile, a notebook showed a 72-year-old woman eating less, losing strength and quietly dropping the routines that made up her week.
Rosa Delgado · August 12, 2026 · 8 min
The Long Road
A New Jersey cafeteria manager considered a GLP-1 while defending the Puerto Rican meals her relatives blamed for her type 2 diabetes.
Theo Marsh · 7 min read
Mind & Body
At 61, a breast cancer survivor with type 2 diabetes considered a GLP-1 while facing medication fatigue, side-effect fears and a body that no longer felt fully her own.
Nadia Okafor · 7 min read
Living With
At forty-one, David thought Type 1 diabetes was a childhood condition until a simple blood test revealed why he had spent months losing weight.
Maya Ellison · 5 min read
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