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Meet Josh:  He loves to ski. He is a mountain boy at heart.  His journey has been insightful and powerful.  He helps others with the hurdles and challenges of life.   I guess I was called back to the mountains in my 20’s because I am a mountain boy at heart. When I was 3 years old, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, hereditary. My grandfather had type 2 and then it skipped my mother, then I caught type 1. But that didn’t prevent me from living a normal childhood, growing up and being active in sports and so on. So, over the course of my life, I have dealt with diabetes pretty normally: took shots, I watched what I ate, have a lot of sugar in my diet, so on and so forth. But it did catch up to me in a sense that it affected other parts of my body: my vision and also my internal organs. Close to 4-5 years ago, I started noticing differences in my body. I wasn’t taking off the fluids properly. My kidneys were not working, they were actual