Durrell Becton was just 17 years old when he found out he had Type 1 diabetes.

He said he was having a number of health problems, including constant weakness, nausea, continual thirst and urination.

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“I was diagnosed maybe a month before I went off to college,” Becton told WTOP. “Come to find out that my blood sugar was over 1,000.”

The normal range for healthy blood sugar is 60 to 120.

That began years worth of treatments with insulin and, ultimately, dialysis when his kidneys failed.

Becton is 38

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