Let's keep it going! We only have 6 more conversations about how the Special Debates Program (SDP) is changing your everyday life before we wrap-up our petition to renew the SDP. Congress will be home during August and this will be an ideal time to deliver the petition along with the stories JDRF advocates have shared about living with diabetes. Over the next 8 days, we're going to need as many people as possible to add their names. If you've already submitted your name supporting the petition, please ask your family and friends to also join you by sharing this link, http://bit.ly/9wQh0b. You can send the link via email or post it on websites like Facebook and Twitter. To make it even more fun, send this link, http://bit.ly/bBoJuG, to watch all the facts on YouTube, along with today's conversation on islet cell transplant provided below. SDP funded research in islet cell transplantation is making it possible for people with type 1 to live without daily insulin shots.
I find it very disconcerting to read "live without insulin", I know that is not your true meaning, but to me it sets up perceptions in the non-diabetics mind that they too are "living without insulin" and we all know if you don't have insulin (self-produced or injected/infused) you aren't really long for this earth. So let's be careful about those 'headlines' and email "Subjects" that we use. NO ONE LIVES WITHOUT INSULIN. Some of us just have to get it exogenously.
To George, get real. Anyone listening to this understands that it means an external source of insulin. If she had said insulin injections, that would have been more accurate, but not necessary in this case. The point of the video is to show why support is needed and how close we are to a cure. I find it very exciting.
Thanks to all of you that submitted a vote for your favorite Special Diabetes Program (SDP) funded research
I am starting my 41st year with insulin, 36 on injections adn 4 on the pump. This type of research is of utmost importance. As a veteran of the cause, nothing in my life or my daughters is more important than something that would allow our bodies to replenish what we have to externally administer.