Indomitable snowman. Extreme diabetes: snowboarder Sean Busby carves a new line.

摘要

Something was wrong. Sean Busby was used to the snow-covered slopes, the frigid temperatures, and the buzz of the crowd-he'd been snow-boarding since he was 12 and had competed professionally since he was 16. But at the U.S. National Snowboarding Championships in March 2004, the then 19-year-old was off his game. Months of frequent vomiting, weight loss, and exhaustion were diagnosed as type 2 diabetes shortly after, but the medications didn't make a difference. By July, Busby's outlook was bleak. He'd lost sponsors, all but quit his training for the 2010 Olympics, and dropped from 153 to 119 pounds. After nearly a year of glacially wasting away, Busby finally got the correct diagnosis: type 1 diabetes.