Rocker Bret Michaels, one of the world’s most famous Type 1 diabetics, has been presented with the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) Chair’s Citation Award, according to an article from Blabbermouth.net.
Michaels, who has suffered from a number of serious health issues this year and also won this season’s Celebrity Apprentice, is the first person to win the award. It is designed to recognize and individual, organization or company that help advance the ADA’s mission.
Michaels appeared at the finale of the Celebrity Apprentice despite suffering an emergency appendectomy, a brain hemorrhage, a stroke and finding out he has a hole in his heart in the month leading up the live finale. On the show, which was filmed in the Fall of 2009 with the exception of the live finale, Michaels won $390,000 for the ADA and the organization’s summer camps for kids with diabetes.
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