I know some one who is a Diabetic Champion – My cousin Mary Evelyn Janes (Nee Cringan) who has been taking insulin for almost 72 years, as she was diagnosed as diabetic at the age of 8 and half and now is a bright, lovely eighty – year – old. Though she is a “Brittle diabetic, as her blood sugar goes up and down which causes trouble, and though Glaucoma and Cataracts were diagnosed when she was 16, she completed her senior matriculation at St. Clement’s School and completed a year at the University of Toronto with good marks, graduated from teachers’ college and taught kindergarten for three years until she married. She gave birth naturally to two healthy sons and now has eight bright grandchildren, those of whom are now at university. Mary is an excellent bridge-player, takes later life learning courses at the University of Toronto and had a career and did voluntier work for many years. I believe she may be the oldest juvenile diabetic in Canada and we love her.