by James Ron | Jan 7, 2021 | Diabetes, James Ron, Philanthropy, Type 1 Diabetes
After my 2-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in early 2009, months passed before the fog of fear and uncertainty began to lift. His pancreas wasn’t ever going to produce insulin again, and he’d always, throughout his life, be dependent on insulin...
by James Ron | Jan 5, 2021 | Diabetes, Philanthropy, Type 1 Diabetes
Wherever I go in the world, I feel a special bond with other people in the Type 1 diabetes community. The connection is especially strong with other diabetes parents, but I feel it with other members of the community as well – children, aunts, uncles,...
by James Ron | Dec 4, 2020 | Diabetes, James Ron, Type 1 Diabetes, Uncategorized
The cost of insulin has skyrocketed over the last decade, as anyone involved in the diabetes business knows. According to one authoritative study published in 2018 by the American Diabetes Association’s “Insulin Access and Affordability Working...
by James Ron | Oct 5, 2020 | Diabetes, James Ron, Philanthropy, Research, Type 1 Diabetes
When my son was two years old, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I’ve written before about the tense months and years following this diagnosis—about fearing for his survival and adopting on a new perception of food as a villain in his life. Today, however, I’d...
by James Ron | Sep 16, 2020 | Diabetes, James Ron
When my son got Type 1 diabetes at the age of 2 in Canada, I had zero sense of what it really meant. Diabetes, in my mind, was something that older people got because they had issues of overweight or poor diet. How could my slim, cute little boy, whose biggest passion...
by James Ron | Sep 9, 2020 | Diabetes
Over 400 million people around the world suffer from one of two types of diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease characterized by a lack of insulin production, while Type 2 is a condition in which the body does produce some insulin, but cannot use that insulin in an...