Samaya is walking for a world without type 1 diabetes

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Can test blood sugar levels in a child participating in an ‘artificial pancreas’ trial

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Can test whether a baby or child is likely to get T1D in a world-first screening study

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Can pay the daily salary of a mid-career T1D researcher to make their ground-breaking findings

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Can pay for a participant in a trial to investigate a cutting-edge T1D prevention drug

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Total Steps:

170,000

Steps Goal:

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I'm walking for a world without type 1 diabetes in Brisbane!

am i doing this to get my blood sugar down that day? maybe.

but in reality, my type 1 diabetes diagnosis has absolutely rocked my world. at the time of writing this, it’s coming up on 1 month since that lovely hospital visit on December 22nd — 39.5mmol/L BGL & 4mmol/L ketones. it’s safe to say that a simple blood test saved my life. if i’d have waited another day i likely wouldn’t have made it past christmas 2025.

i’m lucky enough to have had 18 years of life without T1D which i’m so incredibly grateful for. but i have my whole life ahead of me and knowing that my brain along with every other type 1’s brain won’t be allowed to stop thinking at every waking (and sleeping) moment absolutely devastates me.

so while i’m grieving the life i had without T1D i’m also looking forward to my own growth, and the advancements coming for those with T1D. this is why i’m walking.