Losing health insurance coverage is a very stressful event for a person living with diabetes! We need access to medications, technologies, and health care providers to manage blood sugar levels and stay healthy, but now all of that is in jeopardy. Living with diabetes is stressful enough without this added uncertainty and burden! What steps should you consider when you are faced with loss of coverage?

Before I created the diabetes club on the Cal State Long Beach campus, in Fall of 2021 I created the initiative for sharps containers to be inserted in the university student restrooms, which are constantly populated on campus. Although the idea was accepted and given support by executives in the university student union in October that year...

My story of being discriminated against for having diabetes didn’t stop after earning my Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering from Massachusetts Maritime Academy or changing United States Coast Guard regulations to allow me to go out to sea on merchant ships. The next chapter sounds more like a Ben Affleck movie in the underbelly of Boston.