We’re back and with a new format and new partners! Each week Rob and Eritrea will update you on all the goings on at Diabetics Doing Things, and integrate that into the show prior to our guests.
This week we talk about:
Trouble with infusion sets and what to do about them
Eritrea digs in on a recent laser treatment for her retinopathy
This week’s guest is Lina Kazii (@linakaziii on instagram)
Lina lives with T1D in Washington, DC today but we spend a good amount of time discussing her home country of Rwanda, which Lina represented as Miss Rwanda in 2015.
Lina, Rob and Eritrea discuss, among other things:
Lina’s T1D Diagnosis
Growing up with T1D in an African household in the US
Returning to Rwanda as a young adult
Dealing with family members who want to “cure” your Diabetes
Diabetes and its relationship to trauma
Advocating for #insulin4all and protesting at Eli Lilly HQ in 2019
What it’s like to be a popular woman with Diabetes online
Lina’s brand Kazii by Lina and her robes
and MORE
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