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In short supply: equipment for treating diabetes is becoming dangerously hard to come by (Getty)

“They can’t get your insulin.”

My wife’s tone conveyed a mixture of worry and frustration. For me, it felt as if I had been hit with a sledgehammer. Pure fight or flight.

When I was two years old, you see, my immune system went haywire for reasons that are not well understood – and blitzed my pancreas’s insulin-producing cells.