"Has It Changed My Life? Absolutely" - Julie's Islet Cell Transplant (Classic Episode)

Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes · Mar 18, 2021 · 1m

Julie Allred received two separate islet cell transplants ten years ago. How is she doing today?

Diagnosed at age 10, Julie was told she would never have children and she wouldn't live to see age 30. She's proved her doctors wrong on both counts – her daughter was married a few years ago – but she did have a lot of trouble with unpredictable and debilitating lows in her 30s. These lows were so unpredictable and dangerous that she not only stopped driving, she barely left her house. Then she found out about a clinical trial of islet cell transplants.

This interview was first aired in January…