Guest Blogger – Laura Ely competes as a member of Team Type 1′s Triathalon team. She works as a Clinical Research Coordinator and Marketing Coordinator for the University of North Carolina Diabetes Care Center Clinical Trial Program and is also a Communication Coordinator for DiabetesSisters, an online diabetes community for women. Laura was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of four.
One amazing woman, Brandy Barnes realized the lack of this support system in the diabetes world and decided to do something about it. She created an online community, DiabetesSisters, that would allow women to connect via the web and share their experiences as a woman with Type 1, Type 2, gestational or pre-diabetes. I was fortunate enough to meet Brandy at a diabetes event and I fell in love with the organization. At the time, I knew how important my girlfriends with diabetes were to me but knew that not everyone shared my fortune. Every woman living with diabetes deserves to have this type of support system to help her live to her fullest potential. Since it began 2 years ago, DiabetesSisters has grown to become a 501c3 not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health and quality of life of women living with or at risk of developing diabetes, and to advocate on their behalf. Read more »