Anjali's creation is a gameboard-like drawing containing pictures and phrases illustrating her experiences from watching her grandmother, other family and friends struggle with diabetes for years (e.g., 'EXERCISE,' 'DIET' or 'INSULIN'). "I do hope that my entry will help to improve the awareness of diabetes worldwide," said Anjali in her narrative. She says she chose to use the board as a representation that "one can always maximize his or her benefit by playing right."

Yoko has had diabetes for 10 years, and in her narrative she describes the feelings she had when the disease was diagnosed. "I was sad every day," said Yoko. But then she met her current diabetologist who encouraged her to reconcile with her disease. Now Yoko looks upon her life favorably and has resumed her old hobbies of playing piano and traveling. Her emotional reconciliation with diabetes can be seen in her entry, a flower painting of incredible color. "My heart takes on a form, and the echoing harmony becomes a picture," says Yoko. She calls her paintings "Dancing Flowers."

Despite not having diabetes herself, Theresa is no stranger to this condition. Theresa draws diabetes-focused cartoons for various medical publications and also serves as a clinical nurse manager at a major medical center in California. She believes humor is a necessary component when talking about diabetes, saying, "If you laugh, you learn." Her entry, an interactive game,asks children to pin a pancreas on a cartoon drawing of a pig. The pancreas is the body's organ that produces insulin to regulate blood sugar levels; in people with diabetes, the pancreas makes little or no insulin, often requiring insulin replacement therapy.Theresa says the idea for the pig came from the fact that they were an early source of insulin for people with diabetes.

Mercedes' daughter was diagnosed with diabetes in 1964 when she was 8 years old. At the time, it was a challenge for people with the disease to manage their glucose levels. "Especially in the 1960s, having diabetes means to live a limited life, but it is also a great motivator for self-improvement," Mercedes says. She started to write to express her feelings and thoughts about a number of events that marked her and her family's life. Her entry is a poem inspired by a very important day in the life of her daughter and all her loved ones. As a consequence of a diabetic nephropathy, her daughter entered in a dialysis program in September 1998. The night of January 6, 1999 she received a phone call offering the possibility of receiving a kidney by a kidney transplant operation. The operation was conducted early the next day.

Coincidentally, January 6th is "Three Kings Day" in Spain when children receive their Christmas presents. This kidney transplant was a very special gift for the whole family. By telling this story in her poem, Mercedes wanted to express hope and faith to everybody experiencing a similar situation and to all diabetes patients or patients with any other disease or limitation.

Teresa is a mother of two and an avid photographer. Inspired by her son's diabetes diagnosis at age 3, she took an interest in capturing the complexity of living with diabetes by photographing others with the condition in her community. Teresa's collection of photographs, titled "Living with Diabetes," reveals the emotional impact of diabetes on people's lives. "I'm photographing how diabetes affects relationships and the feelings it provokes to care for others," Teresa wrote in her corresponding narrative.