![]() ![]() She has since tried so many different insulin types, tools and devices that her experience has almost mirrored the evolution of insulin therapy itself.Īnd today? Osborne wears a small disk-shaped sensor on her shoulder called a continuous glucose monitor. An early routine involved poking her finger with a lancet, putting a drop of blood on a test strip to check her blood sugar level, and then using a syringe to inject insulin derived from a pig’s pancreas into the skin of her abdomen – multiple times a day. After dragging herself to the doctor and being ordered to get to a hospital immediately, the 18-year-old was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and told that her very survival would depend on frequent injections of life-saving insulin. It has been 44 years since Ana Osborne passed out one morning before school and woke up four hours later, bewildered. ![]()
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