Dan Hill the Canadian singer-songwriter watched seven-years ago that his father’s legs had been damaged by diabetes and then he was lying in coma which eventually took his life away.

The Grammy and Juno award winner experienced heartbreak not just because he lost his father but also since him and his younger brother are both suffering from diabetes too they had grim chances against the disease.

Hill said that he had the most troubling experience to watch his beloved father lose his life slowly by diabetes. His father lived in Toronto and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the year 1996.

He added, “I was that much more determined to not let that happen to me. In a way, it was a wake-up call and I became very healthy.”

Hill along with his brother is among the 9 million Canadians who suffer from diabetes of either type 1 or type 2 or a third kind which is pre-diabetes. This is a stage which eventually leads to the disease.

Type 1 diabetes is typically a disease which occurs in kids and adolescents and type 2 usually hits you during adulthood.