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I’m generally not a jealous person (at least I don’t think so), but “jealousy” is the only way I think I can describe what I’m going through right now.

Every time I see an ad for the breast cancer three-day walk — which is about every 30 seconds these days — I want to hurl the TV across the room. Why? Because why can’t that much attention be paid to people with diabetes?

Yes, I know there are walks for diabetes. But are there commercials with people dressed in blue saying “Save the ta-tas”… er, “Save the pancreases of the world” and “If I can walk 20 miles a day in support of my mother/sister/aunt/uncle/son/daughter then anyone can?” No, there aren’t.

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National Diabetes Awareness Month is here! Yep, it's November already. My birthday is right around the corner, along with Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving. November is a busy, busy month.

But most importantly, it is Diabetes Awareness Month. Fall Walks are happening every weekend. World Diabetes Day takes place. And people advocate our disease.

On Saturday, I'll be participating in the local JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes with several friends. We raised over $450 for the walk. It's my first walk so I'm very excited to see how it works and meet all the people there.

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Today marked both the beginning of November and the beginning of Diabetes Awareness Month. There are a boat load of different activities scheduled throughout the month, and while I would love to participate in each and every one of them, I know it’s just not humanly possible. So, I’ve put together a list of the activities to which I’ll devote some time and effort.

First and foremost is the Going Blue initiative I started over on my blog, My Diabetic Heart. I draped the site in Diabetes Blue and will leave it that way until the end of November. Fellow D-Bloggers were invited to do the same.

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Back in November, Christopher Thomas of Diabetic Rockstar suggested that one of the reasons diabetes doesn't get the attention it deserves is that there are so many different diabetes-related organizations which seem to be so much at odds with each other that "they can't even decide on a color". By this, he was referring to the American Diabetes Association's (ADA's) use of red as its primary color rather than World Diabetes Day Blue, which is close to the blue used by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and not too far off the blue used by dLife® on its Web site and in the screens on dLifeTV®.

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Today, I am participating in Blue Fridays by wearing a blue sweater in support of diabetes awareness. I've never really understood this trend where we wear blue on certain days to advocate for this disease. Who is going to ask me why I'm wearing blue today? Who is going to notice that every Friday in November, I am wearing blue? I can guarantee that answer is no one.

Yet we all do it. We advocate in these tiny, unified ways that show we are working for a cure. We sign up for the Walks, fundraise in a multitude of ways, write letters to Congress, post on Facebook, blog about it, and sometimes never stop talking about it. And what are we really accomplishing?

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We hear it over and over again: delays in seeking medical treatment are responsible for huge numbers of preventable deaths each year. Sometimes the delays are financial: not having the money to pay the doctor, buy the medication, schedule the procedure. Sometimes they are logistical: unable to get time off work, car isn't working (or a driver isn't available), or there isn't an available doctor or treatment facility space within the necessary timeframe. Then there are the diagnostic delays -- often because life-threatening medical conditions don't show symptoms until they reach emergency status, but sometimes because the condition is difficult for one's healthcare team to diagnose.

In this case, though, the expression is idiomatic, and the cause, meteorological. At least, that's what I'm going with.

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Every year, I thoroughly enjoy the month of November. It's absolutely my favorite month of the year. The weather is generally perfect as the leaves begin to change here in Texas, the mornings get frosty, and the afternoon highs are ideal. My birthday happens this month. Thanksgiving, football, and general fall fun. Plus, November is when the diabetes community gets wild and joins together to do things like the Big Blue Test, World Diabetes Day, and now T1 Day.

This year, I'm not sure how I feel about Diabetes Awareness Month though. I'm excited for my birthday and the weather and all the other happenings. But diabetes has been extremely difficult for me lately. In an emotional, awareness kind of way. As well as the numbers kind of way.

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