Edited by
Lindsey Wahowiak
News About the
American Diabetes
Association
Events
Stepping Forward
AS yOu’ve flippeD through this issue of Diabetes
Forecast, you’ve no doubt noticed Red Striders®
strolling across the pages. They’re some of the folks
with diabetes who participate in the American Diabetes
Association’s Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes®, an
annual walk to raise diabetes funding and awareness.
Red Striders are more than just fund-raiser participants:
They are honored walkers, the very soul of Step Out.
Every Red Strider’s story is different. Here are just a
few from the Washington, D.C., area.
RObin DORSey, 35,
of Fort Washington, Md.
Diabetes History and
Management: Diagnosed with
gestational diabetes six years
ago and with type 2 diabetes
shortly after the birth of her
son. She manages her diabetes
with metformin, multiple daily
insulin injections, healthy
eating, carbohydrate control,
and exercise.
Message to Others:
“You have to change the things
that you do in order to live a
long, productive life. And it’s
not easy, but that’s what I want
people to know: You can do it!
I’m living proof.”
Step Out Achievements:
Registering more than
40 people to join her
Step Out team, the GEM
(Going the Extra Mile) Social
Club, in 2012. The team has
doubled its fund-raising efforts
each year. “Before I had
diabetes, my family had
diabetes, so I started to pay
attention a little more to what
was going on with them,”
she says. “This is my life’s
mission right now.”
