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Only in Spain, more tan 3.500.000 people coexist with diabetes
a number which is growing at a rate of 5% per year
By and for DT1
Type 1 diabetes is a disease
that provoques that pancreas does not produce insuline
and it is uncurable.
However, it is treated with daily injections
Whether we did not have those insuline injections
we would run the risk of dying.
With Type 1 diabetes
you can have a normal life
with huge accomplishments
The only thing which is required
is glucemic, ...
insulin, ...
eating portions or carbohydrate daily controls.
Sport is essential for diabetes
either swimming, biking or running
Any sport is good
since any kind of sports
make us give us less shots
because we are burning sugar.
It is natural
when you make sport
you are burning sugar
Of course, we have to check the glycemia
always
before and while
But sport is ...
ESSENTIAL
In 2004 I was diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes
Nobody had it
nobody had suffered it in my environment
When it started
I was told three essential sentences
that left a mark on me
"If you don´t take care of yourself"
"we will cut you a leg"
"you will suffer impotence"
"or you will get blind"
That was the moment
when I started to study
what diabetes and day by day was
Today, I am taking it great
Mind is a parachute, It only works when it is open
Jon and I met
when he had the first symptoms in the hospital
From that moment on
he has been the perfect example
of putting the disease in his life
and dealing with it perfectly,
in such a way that
he learnt how to put insuline by himself
and set the levels according to the sugar level
or the exercise.
He did the same with food
He knows a lot about diets,
he knows perfectly about fats,
carbohydrates,
and he knows how to change and exchange them.
I think it has carried
within a perfect control if his diabetes
His glycosylated hemoglobine
has never been more tan 7
and that is a success.
It is the perfect example if how diabetes
limits what you want it to limit.
Of course it is a hard
self-sacrificing sport.
many training hours
Competition is very hard as well
It is about 8 to 9 hours competitions
Frankly speaking, this is the first time
I have ever met a diabetic triathlete in person.
Without this disease, without this problem, ...
it is a complicated sport by itself.
If we add the fact of having sugar level measeurements,
giving insuline shots and so on,
it looks great to me.
Of course diseases or physical problems affect a lot but,
at the end, the will to overcome,
the will of doing things,
can be bigger than any disease,
than any problem one can have,
and people like Jon demonstrate it.
They are an overcaming example
and they have my respect,
my admiration
and my strength
so that they keep on fighting.
In the sports medicine
we try to help the sportsman
to develop his capacities better and better.
For doing so,
we make an specific valoration for every single sportsman,
his rythms, kind of sport,
we choose if we run or bike,
we choose the specific protocole we want to do
to search what the sportsman needs.
The first thing we rule out
is any kind of health problem,
that is essential for any stress test.
But that is not the end,
we go beyond.
We help the sportsman to know the way he has to train,
the rythms he has to work with.
We can give guidance on diets,
treat injuries.
We meet, a little bit,
a range of the the necessities for the sportsman.
In the case of Jon Karro
type 1 diabetic
as he is a well-trained sportsman
the parameters he has got are the standard person ones
elite sportsman or any other person
who trains regularly and is subject to normal controls.
There is no difference between him
and any other triathlete.
Well, I met Jon when we were juniors
We met quite much there
Apart from the fact that he has always been a friend of mine
His eagerness to go on certainly isn't lacking
and that is essential for dealing with diabetes.
I believe that with his eagerness
and making things correctly
he is demonstrating that you can go further.
I believe that the real deal is
you have to know how to deal with diabetes.
People live with it…
… you have to have controls.
If you conduct a follow-up
and you take it seriously
you can do great things.
24 hours non stop…
I got impressed
I saw him start ans I though to myself:
"This guy does not know what he is going to do"
and, when I could finish the march with him
I said:
"You mother f…, you have ba.., man"
IRONMAN First european diabetic who got it in 10 hours
French olympic championship
First insulin-dependent in the world who has got it. 650 Kms in 24 hours without getting off his bike.
When you are on a bike and you are ready to meet a world challenge
when you fill the waves hitting your forehead and there no imposition
no adversity
When you feel that your legs have decided to fight by themselves
to finish that triathlon you have trained so much
there is no disease
no problems
not even doubts
There is only the CHALLENGE ...
that, in any way, makes us feel free at that moment.
The challenge to demonstrate yourself ...
that you can DO IT
If living is good dreaming is still better
and the best of all…
WAKING UP
Directed by ...
Original Music ...
Dedicated ...
Thanks
By and for DT1
Translated by: Carlos Ramos Lorenzo