A different kind of courage

Arlene Goodrich has won a medal for her courage and success in managing diabetes for 50 years.

The 78-year-old Redlands woman received the medal from the Joslin Diabetes Center for being insulin-dependent for 50 years without any serious complications.

Goodrich didn't know what was wrong with her when she was 28. She was out shopping with a friend in Riverside at Christmas time and felt weak.

"I just remember drinking Orange Juliuses to get my energy up," Goodrich said.

Dr. James Fallows, her doctor at Beaver Medical Clinic, diagnosed her with Type 1 diabetes in December 1958. Type 1 diabetes, which used to be called juvenile diabetes, is a disease that destroys the body's ability to make insulin

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