Part 01
I'm a Film Grip. On set that means building the tracks, the cranes, the sliders. Anything that moves a camera, we build it. When the camera isn't moving, we're the handymen. Long hours, physical work, unpredictable days. Not exactly the ideal environment for managing Type 1 diabetes.
I was diagnosed as a teenager. For years I got by on guesswork. A lucky correction here, an approximate carb count there. I never truly owned it. Never fully understood what was happening inside my body or why.
Part 02
One day on a film set my CGM alarm went off mid take. Boom. Kicked off set, reputation tarnished, the director didn't care I was diabetic, no one did. Nobody gets it, not really. And I'd spent years hoping they would instead of taking full control myself. That day on set changed everything. I decided to master my diabetes, not manage it. I started studying, testing, documenting. I also qualified as a personal trainer, a side where I'm the one in control.
The Sweet Struggle is what came next. A real-time record of what it looks like when a T1D stops guessing and starts knowing. I'm building the manual I never got and sharing every page of it. If you've ever felt completely alone in this, I built this for you.
