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Murray Pincus of Boca Raton, Fla., has devoted his post-retirement life to helping people with diabetes. The 78-year-old has battled type 2 diabetes himself for 50 years
Dr. Wendy Satin Rapaport was a hospital social worker when she met the patient who sparked her interest in the psychological component of diabetes care. “He was a 16-year-old whose mother had died, who would repeatedly stop taking his insulin and end up in the hospital,” she says.
Josephine Benenati, a great-grandmother who lives in a neighborhood full of relatives in O’Fallon, Mo., defines herself by her family, not her diabetes.“I’m the mother of four children,” Benenati says. “I live within about two blocks of three of them, and the other is about four minutes away. We all live very close, and that’s what has helped me through everything I have gone through.”
They’ve never rushed into a burning building to save a child or single-handedly stopped a crime, but Mary O’Connor and Janice Messick are heroes. Want proof? Ask those they’ve helped, people like Joe Johnson
Thriving with diabetes requires work, self-awareness and daily commitment. But the flip side is that you can thrive — this is one disease that responds beautifully to self-care.
Every evening, Maureen Murray jumps on her treadmill and logs three miles. Mornings, the dynamic 65-year-old grandmother of two spends some quiet time with coffee and meditation.
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