Not long after I wrote this post about a news story that called bariatric surgery a "cure" for type 2 diabetes, a friend of mine emailed to ask about one of the comments. A reader suggested that there will never be a cure for diabetes because the disease is a money maker.

I explained to my friend that the multi-billion-dollar industry makes a profit in so many areas: test strips, meters, oral drugs, insulin, pumps, syringes, even accessories. What motivation is there, I asked her, for the world to come up with a cure and put all those good people out of work.

I may be naive and woefully open minded, but I am not a pessimist; I believe there are good doctors and researchers out there who are not motivated by money.

And when I first read this article in Diabetes Health magazine, I thought about how wrong Joey's mom was.

The article says: When she speaks about the documentary, a hint of anger swells in her voice. She thinks the media spends too much effort attempting to make people with diabetes appear "normal." According to Silvestri, the only way the public will take the disease seriously is by showing its debilitating complications.

"Anyone who says you can have diabetes and lead a normal life is letting everybody off the hook and robbing Joey of a future. The technology we have now is not good enough. I don't want Joey to live a life with diabetes; I want to find a cure. Diabetes only takes from people's lives and I hate it," Silvestri says.

I was angry! I am leading a normal life, I thought. I take vacations, I work, I'm a mom, I'm not limited in any way by this disease. I look normal. And I guess that's just it. When I tell people I have diabetes they think, "But you don't look sick." And that's the problem. There is no motivation for a cure. As a representative of this disease who is not walking around missing a leg or half blind the people in my world think I'm living just fine by managing my disease. Because that's what I'm really doing--management.

We don't often talk about a cure here except to yell at diabetes and say we can't wait for diabetes to be gone; or to whisper that clinical trials on humans are being done--we don't want to jinx it by talking about it.

I know I said I'm not a pessimist, but I really believe that I'll live with diabetes for the rest of my long life. So let's start talking about it. In concrete terms. What's it going to take to get the medical community more motivated--just for the sake of motivation, not for the sake of financial gain--to put thousands of people out of work and give us nothing to write about?