Guest Blog: Tales in the Insulin Vial

My name is Steve Beriault. I am 58 years old and have been a Juvenile Diabetic (Type 1) for 56 years. I am happily married to my wife Maria and we have two sons Dan and Nick, whom we love very much. Nick is also a juvenile diabetic diagnosed at 5 years of age, now 22. Dan is studying for his PhD in Biochemistry at McMaster University. He is studying diabetes and heart disease. I have had the privilege to receive academic degrees from University of Waterloo Honors BSc, MA from the University of Ottawa and Business Administration from the University of Calgary.

Website – talesintheinsulinvial.com

Tales in the Insulin Vial
By Steve Beriault

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OPPORTUNITY COST

There isn’t a day that passes that a diabetic child doesn’t dream, deep in his or her heart, that he or she will never have to take insulin injections again. In reality, the child will do this for life or until a cure is found. In my young life, I had to have one injection every morning and I hated it. That later evolved into four injections a day in adulthood. Today, juvenile diabetics begin taking multiple injections—up to four or five per day—plus finger pricks for blood monitoring from the time they are diagnosed.