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Quick, name the movie... " Drink your juice, Shelby! " and " Don't talk about me like I'm not here! " Those two lines are likely what's burned into the brain of anyone with diabetes who saw... you guessed it! (if you read the post title)... the movie Steel Magnolias . It's the 1989 film in which Julia Roberts plays Shelby, a young woman with type 1 diabetes, who's dealing with family stresses alongside complications in the U.S. South. There's the famous scene in the beauty parlor, where Shelby has a low blood sugar while getting her hair prettied up before her wedding. Beads of sweat appear on her lip and brow, and she's trembling and being held down as she fights off the cup of orange juice that her mom — played by Sally Field — is trying to force down her throat. And then there's everything else that happens in this movie that's influenced a generation of women — and some of us guys — on the topic of diabetes in a not-so-positiv...

  ith so many in our diabetes community struggling to afford just the basics they need to stay alive, we depend more than ever on patient activists. One mover-and-shaker is longtime type 1 Gail deVore in Denver, Colorado. Diagnosed as a kid in the early 70s, Gail is now a leader in everything from the #WeAreNotWaiting tech space where she serves on the Nightscout Foundation board, to testifying before Congress on insulin pricing, helping craft a state law for emergency prescription refills. She recently appeared in an episode of HBO's VICE News to spread the word on our access and affordability challenges. And that's just scratching the surface of all that Gail has seen and done in her years living with T1D. Please welcome Gail as she shares her personal story and advocacy efforts with 'Mine readers today:   My Diabetes Life and Fighting for Affordable Insulin, by Gail deVore   When the price of insulin started rising more than I had ever exp...