Abstract
On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 the diabetes community lost a guiding light for what it means to live your best life, with diabetes, despite complications. Kimberly Hilsop, a friend and advocate for every person with diabetes that she encountered, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 37 due to complications related to living with type 1 diabetes. For those of us who knew her and were fortunate enough to call her a friend, we have been forced to consider our own mortality, and learn to host an emptiness that Kim’s presence left vacated. In the years that I knew Kim, she taught me that the most important part about people living with diabetes was never the “with diabetes” piece. It was always about the people, and it was always about living.
Highlights
Normality is an interesting thing, because “normal” does not mean the same thing to everyone
We might measure the number of hours of sleep a person has lost over the course of a year due to hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic glucose events, or we might look at how far a person’s A1C is from normal, and assign that difference a value, essentially measuring their loss of normality
Hilsop, a friend and advocate for every person with diabetes that she encountered, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 37 due to complications related to living with type 1 diabetes. For those of us who knew her and were fortunate enough to call her a friend, 2 Vol 5 | No 1 | 2019 we have been forced to consider our own mortality, and learn to host an emptiness that Kim’s presence left vacated. As much as she was loved within the diabetes community at large, I cannot imagine the loss that those closest to her must be feeling, and our hearts here at The PLAID Journal go out to everyone who is grieving Kim no longer being with us
Summary
Normality is an interesting thing, because “normal” does not mean the same thing to everyone. We often define those outcomes by what a person or group of people living with diabetes has lost. We might measure the number of hours of sleep a person has lost over the course of a year due to hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic glucose events, or we might look at how far a person’s A1C is from normal, and assign that difference a value, essentially measuring their loss of normality.
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