Spoke with my beloved about the life expectancy of type 1 diabetics, of which I'm one. Women with this disease live, on average, to the age of 68. I'm more than halfway there already! But he reassured me that the best years are ahead. I may also do better than the older examples because I was diagnosed in the 1990s; people much older than me didn't have access to the kind of precise blood sugar technology that we type 1s have today. So hopefully I can have a few more years, God willing.