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Beyond the workout: the hidden struggle of diabetic gastroparesis

Ryan Ritchie
Conditions
March 21, 2024

The final three minutes of my hour-long elliptical workout were not easy. Pain spread across my stomach, causing me to row in a half-sitting motion, and my chest vacillated between violent coughs and the sorts of deep breaths people take when they think they’ve seen a ghost. Perspiration fell from my shirtless torso to the garage floor. The amount of sweat was not the kind my body produces from exercise. …

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Beyond the workout: the hidden struggle of diabetic gastroparesis

Type 1 diabetes is no fun

Ryan Ritchie
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October 30, 2021

A brown plastic bag sits atop the green dresser in my room. One side has a purple hummingbird flying above the word “Papyrus,” a store at the mall named after the material ancient Egyptians used as a written surface. The other side of the bag features a white hummingbird with red splashes on its wings. A paragraph of small, white writing rests at the bottom of the bag. I don’t …

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