PERSONAL STORIES

My little kid is not the same innocent kid that walked into the hospital the last days of 2023. This disease has changed her worldview in deep and pro...

11 December, 2025

In 2014, I achieved my goal of backcountry snowboarding remote mountain ranges on all 7 continents with T1D,...

04 December, 2025

My name is Tyson Sunnerberg, I am co-owner and head personal trainer of Type One Fitness, a non profit fitness facility with a mission to help T1D fam...

19 November, 2025

Seventeen years ago, at the age of 24, I was diagnosed with late-onset Type 1 diabetes. Like many, I began with multiple daily injections and later tr...

06 November, 2025

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 4, and my dad has been living with it for over 51 years. You could say we were both thrown a curve ball ea...

28 October, 2025

What we found was a sport that was so accepting of Mason’s new life. From the coaches to the children, and the new families we would meet....

16 October, 2025

When I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 15 years old, it changed my life forever. It is a never-ending job you can’t take a break on, you canâ€...

13 November, 2023

I remember my parents driving in silence on our way to the hospital. It was the quietest it had ever been in my family’s car, and all I could hear w...

25 August, 2023

A father reflects on his 34-year journey with type 1 diabetes and confronts the emotional challenges of his daughter's diagnosis, highlighting the dai...

13 August, 2023

It was May 1, 2022, when 14-year-old Trey Flood arrived at The Meadows in Brighton, Michigan, for the first Major League Wiffle Ball (MLW) series of h...

20 June, 2023

I was diagnosed with T1D at age 12 after experiencing the typical symptoms that most of us are aware of: extreme dehydration, frequent bathroom visits...

03 February, 2023

When you see a spunky little preschooler walking around the fields of Little Fenway, looking as though he is evaluating it all yet perplexed as to why...

05 January, 2023

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) a few weeks before I turned 10 years old....

12 November, 2022

On December 6, 2012, our lives changed forever. Our son Cayden was only two years-old. Leading up to this day, we noticed some changes with Cayden....

01 September, 2022

It was a Friday in early October of 2013.  Tryouts for our town’s AA hockey team were over and I was scanning the roster for the players who made t...

10 August, 2022

Sawyer Knowles is an eight-year-old energetic, ninja flipping powerhouse. Sawyer can win you over in a hot second, with his big ole eyes and adorable...

15 July, 2022

Hello! My name is Meghan Gilwee, I am a good friend of Johanna Kolok, daughter of SLAMT1D’s co-founders Natalie and CEO Jeff Kolok. I grew up in She...

27 June, 2022

I was eleven when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. For the next 28 years I tested my blood glucose 5 to 6 times a day (approx. 51,000 times) and...

15 May, 2022

My Best Friend  I met my best friend on February 8th 2002 in a hospital room in Fairfax Virginia. He was a little over 8 pounds, and he completed the...

12 April, 2022

Cass and JoJo Cass and JoJo are two young women who share a love for basketball and irrepressible spirits. Oh yes, they also share a disease they’re...

08 March, 2022