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A篇 Meet Three People Who Are Making a Difference /make-it-matter-make-a-difference/meet-three-people-who-are-making-a-difference/article115280.html Christopher Thomas is helping people with diabetes, Richard Reisner is teaching sports to the disabled, and Juanita Edrington-Grant is showing ex-cons a new way to live. Christopher Thomas was an aspiring writer by night and a corporate trainer at JPMorgan Chase by day when he noticed he was always tired, frequently needed to urinate, and was losing weight fast—40 pounds in just four months. Tests showed that his pancreas wasnt producing insulin and that his blood sugar was six times higher than normal. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, Thomas, 27, would need to inject himself with insulin three times a day for the rest of his life or risk kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage, amputations, and even death. And if that werent bad enough, he had no health insurance. After a month of feeling sucker punched, Thomas decided hed better find a way to fight back. He packed up his car and left Canton, Michigan, for New York. He found a sublet, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar, and created , a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones—a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources. Jason Swencki is a software developer whose son, Kody, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age six. Father and son visit the online childrens forums together most evenings. Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over, says Swencki, 36, who has become one of the sites volunteer administrators. They know what hes going through, so he doesnt feel alone. Photographed by rudy Archuleta/REDUX Christopher Thomas is working to help diabetics.Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages. These days, Thomass main focus is his c