Living with diabetes

BOULDER — Mary Patzer, 67, started to lose a lot of weight in June, and she wasn’t feeling well.

Patzer’s husband, Helmut, 67, was at Boulder Community Hospital dealing with cancer, and she thought maybe she was taking off the pounds by walking back and forth so much to visit him.

But Patzer said she was having trouble with her vision, too, and she was thirsty all the time. When Patzer visited her doctor, Jill Horner, to find out what was wrong, a blood test showed she had Type II diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes. Horner practices at the Gunbarrel Medical…