With all the talk and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Distrust) flying around about health care costs, health care reform, and health service rationing, one issue we've all been dancing around is the value of life -- specifically, the value of a particular human life.

I'm not going to apologize for ruffling feathers here -- there is no single answer or set of "right" answers, and all values are influenced by community, religion, financial affluence, and direct relationship to the individual being evaluated.

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I hope this blog post finds you. I fear it may be intercepted. We are OK. Just scared. They are monitoring all diabetes-related blog activity and tracing all transmissions, so I must be brief.

The last 48 hours have been harrowing to say the least. Charlie and I have been on the run since receiving word that the "death panels" are rounding up all diabetics. I hope you are all OK. Safe houses have been set up. Obviously I cannot post locations or our safety will be compromised.

I am writing from a small Internet café in Morocco, disguised as a street musician. I have Charlie parked outside in a donkey costume, attached by a leash to a bike rack. They were hot on our trail yesterday in the Andean slopes as teams of Siberian sled-dogs closed in on us in an initiative rumored to run by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

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