111 Stories of people with diabetes by Susana Ruiz Mostazo

Manu has a dream: being a professional of Ciclocross and demonstrating to children that with effort and perseverance they can also pursue their own.

Miriam took off her medical flight at five years of age, before flying over the Sierra de Cádiz in paragliding.Rubén, a passionate about the planes, his parents wake him up when they are going to land in Japan, because they know that their son loves the pilot's maneuvers.Dream of being like him.

All these people who, in one way or another, pursue their dreams, have something in common.They are not family or share a job.

The reality is more amazing: a chronic disease has joined them in a collective project aimed at changing other lives.111 stories of people with diabetes of Susana Ruiz Mostazo is a unique book that brings together the testimonies of those who, in their daily lives, coexist, fight for their objectives and face the challenges of coexisting with a high concentration of blood glucose.

Some stories engenders others.And this is how this collective project was born.Susana shared her testimony in dreams have no top, chronicle that caused an unexpected reaction: the new readers and unknown readers wrote to Susana to thank her for their courage and for their commitment to make diabetes visible.And from those conversations the idea of ​​a joint manifestation sprouted, to tell the wind the stories of people who pursue their dreams, their hobbies and do not give up: that they share, that the disease does not prevent enjoying a full life.

«They are original stories, which show that all of us have something important and special to tell.Testimonies of overcoming, of different hobbies.During the interviews people have opened their heart sincerely, getting that in the project we can have love, family, adventures, sports, professions, trips and, always, dreams, ”Susana tells us.

about the author

Susana Ruiz Mostazo (Tudela, 1982) had been imagining that her vital experiences became a book and got it with dreams have no top.That was the beginning of the project that you have before you.For Susana it is very important to make visible and share the experiences of other people who, like her, walk from the hand of insulin.111 stories of people with diabetes was born from his book and has developed in the form of interviews published on his YouTube channel.Hours and hours of talk, self -knowledge, generosity and vocation for collaborating.

Susana is a usual lecturer, known in most of the associations that fight to make visible a disease that affects almost 6 million people in Spain.With hard work and constancy, in addition to combining its work in the same company for 19 years, a hole has been made and a name sharing its history of overcoming.Summit to Summit, looking for that social impact that makes the way in which people with diabetes are perceived and perceived.

From the age of 11, Susana was clear that the disease would never prevent him from pursuing his dreams.It was not easy, since it had to be adapted to the disease and adapt the disease to the way of life you wanted: climb peaks.In 2013, he began trying tools for people with diabetes at altitude.These essays took her with her husband to Nepal, to the Cums of Atlas or the Sahara in Africa.

And so, he began preparing the most important trip of his life, a written testimony in which he explores the world of diabetes with 111 people, a project that you can support today to become a book.

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