Farewell, Landleigh Nelson. I (and others) in the Diabetes Community Will Miss You.

Over the weekend, I learned that Landileigh Lee (James) Nelson died on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. As many of her friends knew, in recent years, Landileigh (or as those closest to her called her " Landi " ) had been dealing with a number of health issues. She faced seemingly one health issue after another, including dialysis which began at one point. And yet she handled it all incredibly gracefully and with her typical sense of humor, which was one reason I was proud to call Landileigh my friend.In 2017, Landi posted that she had gotten a new haircut on Facebook. I thought it was a nice photo of her, and this is how I wish to remember her.  This was Landi ' s H.S. graduation photo taken in 1978, two years after my own T1D diagnosis. Apparently, back in December 2022, she had gone to the ER with severe abdominal pain which she thought was her pancreatitis (one of the different health issues she ' d been dealing with recently) flaring up, but it turned out that she had some type of leakage in one of her intestines. On December 18, she had surgery to repair that, and she had part of her intestine removed (FYI, my mother lived with autoimmune ulcerative colitis or " UC " and had her entire large intestine removed; only she was spared from wearing an ostomy bag with a multi-part surgery called J-Pouch surgery, which means intestinal issues are not necessarily fatal). But her husband Chuck told friends (Landileigh also remained very close with her daughter Holly) that...
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