Interview with Janie Lazar

Welcome to another Thriveabetes interview. Today I'm with Janie Lazar from Dublin who was misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2016 and correctly diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults LADA / Type 1.5 in 2018.

But Janie's story is about more than diabetes, she has twice survived cancer: once without diabetes, once with diabetes. She is also the founder of End of Life Ireland, runs her own coaching business helping people with public speaking and Lead Organiser for TEDxDunlaoghaire.

Part 1

We talked about Janie’s misdiagnosis of type 2 diabetes, the struggle to manage it and the stigma she encountered.

Part 2

We continue in part 2 with Janie being correctly diagnosed with LADA but also in how this leads to her second cancer diagnosis: esophageal cancer. Janie was fortunate to not require any chemo or radiation therapy this time but it did affect her diabetes going forward.

Part 1 with Janie

Part 2 with Janie Lazar

Part 2 with Janie

MORE INFORMATION

What is LADA Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults?

“It's a type of diabetes which seems to straddle type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Bits of it are more like type 1, and other bits are more like type 2. That's why some people call it type 1.5 diabetes or type 1 ½ diabetes.

It’s not actually classified as a separate type of diabetes at the moment, but there's some medical research going on to try and pinpoint exactly what makes it different from type 1 and type 2 diabetes”

From: Diabetes UK

More about Janie;

Janie’s website and her coaching business; Much More than Words

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