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In March, it will be seventeen years. Seventeen long, grueling years. Years of promises, hope, and disappointments. The past years have included dozens of news articles, emails, updates, and doctor's promises that a cure is on the horizon.

 

The next five years. The next ten. Soon. We're making progress. Any day! Before you have kids. Before your kids are grown.

 

The promises abound. The hope alights. But the disappointment is great when five, ten years, soon disappears. Today, I'm wondering why we don't have a cure. Why are we being promised so many things and seeing so much "progress" but nothing is getting to me? Nothing is getting down to the lay-men who are living with this disease? Exactly why do all the mice get cured and I'm stuck injecting and pricking thousands of times?

 

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I was going to write a post about glucose tabs today to represent the letter G. But I'm not going to deliver as promised. Because, another G has been on my mind of late and I wanted to write about it.
What, pray-tell, could deter me from the path of a post about chalky-lemony glucose tabs? Nothing terribly exciting - just the gym. (READ MORE)

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The diabetes bag is relatively light but it weighs heavy upon us. We panic when we lose sight of it like it's one of our children lost in a food store. It is soft and black with pictures of rockets on it. It contains about 13 alcohol wipes, a meter with a blurry screen, two vials of test strips, a white pricker with a tiny burgundy blood stain on the tip, about a dozen light-blue lancets, a tube of cake gel, Glucagon, two 15-carb apple juice boxes, a granola bar, a bag of Goldfish crackers and a pair of my black underwear???
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This year’s JDRF annual conference has asked those involved with JDRF to compose a “Commitment to a Cure” piece. They will be using these commitment items to display on the Commitment Wall in hopes of increasing interest, passion and the volume of responses at the conference. 

 

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A friend emailed me this week after someone posted something on their blog implying that his characterization of his daughter's illness as a "bad thing" was wrong.  I've heard this kind of argument before about disability or brokenness.  That somehow, manageable chronic disease (particularly disease that onsets in childhood) can't be a "bad" thing because it's a part of a person - or because it's helped to shape a person.  Well, I call B.S.

 

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I usually have my JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes fundraising letter done and distributed by mid-July. This year has been different. I've been in a fundraising funk. I'm just tired of writing the same statistics year after year. The lower life expectancy; the long-term complications; adding up the number of finger pricks since November of 2003. I finally did sit down and write our letter - deciding to simply write what I was feeling at that moment.

 

Dear Friends and Family,

 

"A cure for diabetes is just around the corner."

 

"Scientists are closer than ever to finding a cure."

 

"A cure for diabetes is now within reach."

 

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Oh, Jane, how I hate you.  Exercise videos were your idea, right? 

 

Selling people exercise to perform in their own homes?  Lots of people with hard bodies on-screen sweating half as much as the people performing the video in the living room?  People exercising in front of the television that usually serves as a friend?  People's cats (well, my cat) chasing their draping hair during ab crunches or swatting at sneakers during butt kicks?

 

All of it, torture.  At least Richard Simmons had the decency to include real-life people exercising.  Not you, Jane.  You inspired people like Jillian Michaels.  And she is, no question, SATAN.   I think she's trying to kill me.  For reals.  Or at least get me to wear leg warmers.  And it's your fault, Jane.  

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Per usual, I'm tardy.
Resolution #1 in the New Year: I shall try to be more timely.
Actually, I'm not making any resolutions this year. I think I've turned a corner in terms of resolving to lose weight, exercise, eat right, and relax - then not doing any of it. The difference for me in 2007 was that I promised to do nothing - and I did most of the things I would have promised to do if I'd made resolutions.
Go figure.
At the close of December, the year found me down 30 lbs, exercising more and with more vigor than I have since my teens, eating right and enjoying it, in a new - more satisfying - job, getting paid to write (how exciting!). Numbers-wise, I finished the year with an average A1C of 5.7% and my cholesterol levels much lower. (READ MORE)

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"What does pot have to do with diabetes?" The question came up in the course of a lunchtime conversation with Chris Goldstein of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana - New Jersey, as we discussed our respective advocacies. (New Jersey is currently in the middle of a medical-marijuana tug-of-war.) When the uses of medical marijuana are broached in the media, it's usually in conjunction with terminal cancer -- or intense, persistent pain. The last time I sat in on a presentation on medical marijuana, the speaker explained how it eased many of the symptoms of his late wife's multiple sclerosis. But diabetes? Tell me another one.

 

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This past weekend has seen a lot of DOC heat over Type 2 Diabetic and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's analogizing signing up for medical insurance with a pre-existing condition to trying to insure a home after it has been completely burned to the ground, or a car that has been completely totaled. Our peers have been enraged at the idea that Governor Huckabee is discounting productive lives to the point that, if the analogy were allowed to be continued, we should be completely culled from society (read: euthanized) -- either at the point of diagnosis, or at the point at which we can no longer pay the cost of our medical upkeep ourselves.

 

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