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She Skipped Her Insulin in Her 20s: Here's What Happened 10 Years Later

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In this deeply honest episode of the Diabetes Nerd podcast, Ginger sits down with Mary Ann Chamberlain to talk about a chapter of diabetes that doesn’t get discussed enough.

In her 20s, Mary Ann struggled to take her insulin consistently. Not because she didn’t “know better" or didn’t care. It was because the mental weight of type 1 diabetes (T1D) was too heavy.

Years later, that chapter caught up with her in the form of diabetic retinopathy and vision loss.

This conversation isn’t about fear. It’s about being honest about the real consequences…

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