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How Diabetes Limits my Life Choices

Kelsey Bonilla
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I am a California Girl (in the best sense of the term!) I was born...

Kelsey Bonilla

Thursday, October 16, 2008
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I've always known in the back of my mind that diabetes limited choices for me. I couldn't join certain branches of the military or take off to some remote island and live off the land, for example. Those ideas weren't things I really wanted to do anyway, thus I didn't feel too badly that my diabete...
  1. I totally agree
    Kay S
    Friday, October 17, 2008 at 11:33 AM

    I had to leave a job in infection control in one city to move to another city to work for a health department that offered me health insurance.  Now I am missing my friends and my other job, but I dare not move back with out getting a job with a company that offers secure health benefits.  Trying to get insurance on my own is not going to happen, I was rejected 3 times.  Even my career choice, if I decide to go into the medical field, I would have to work for a hospital and not private practice, because that is the only way I would get insurance.  Its absolutely ridiculous and depressing!

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