Adelie and Uma Bia went to bed without dinner a few weeks ago.

It's a thing she does sometimes.

Not because she can't afford food.

Because she can't afford insulin.

She's a type 1 diabetic and if she skips dinner she can skip a dose and be pretty sure she'll

live through the night. So that way I can save enough until I get my next paycheck

so that I could also afford my rent, my car note this that.

Adelaide's 25 and she does not have to do this kind of thing as often as she did like right after college

when she was interning with a startup.

Now she works at a law firm and it's a good job with health insurance.

But there's a deductible.

So in June she is still paying for insulin herself about $350 every four weeks.

Adeline has known since she was a teenager that the price of insulin was going to play a major role in her

life after her dad died.

We didn't really have health insurance, you know, so me and my mom would go to, CVS and they were like, you know, for her insulin, it's going to be $3,000.

It was so heartbreaking.

I think that's when I really realized.

Oh shit, like I'm on my own.

Like this wasn't something her mom could really protect her from, not for the rest of her life.

Her mom found the money, it was not easy, and from then on it was a

scramble, credit cards, help from relatives, from nonprofits, whatever it took. And

since Adeline's been on her own, she's always found a way, including skipping doses and

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