Today, you can help diabetes advocacy efforts by thanking your Members of Congress while JDRF staff and other experts review the intricate details of the artificial pancreas guidance that was published on December 1.
We remain encouraged by the draft guidance thus far and hope you are too! We would not be analyzing this draft guidance if it wasn't for all of your hard work and the strong support of your Member(s) of Congress. We thank you again for your help and ask that you send an e-mail to your legislator(s) who encouraged the FDA to issue prompt and appropriate guidance on artificial pancreas technologies. (It’s optional, but we love for you to share your story of how diabetes impacts your life in the middle paragraph!)
Don’t forget to email this post to your family and friends so they can thank Congress as well. You can also thank the FDA, find how out at this recent Advocacy blog post.
Hasan
Earlier today, Hasan reminded you to thank your Member of Congress for helping to get the FDA to release
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Being the grandmother of an 8 year granddaughter with Juvenile Diabetes, I am thankful for any opportunity to make strides in the advancement of research to cure Diabetes. I would like to thank Congress for their support of the "FDA to issue prompt and appropriate guidance on artificial pancreas technologies." My wish for 2012 is to open up the door for agressive research and approval of the use of the artificial pancreas. My hopes and dreams are that one day (in my life-time) my granddaughter can be free from insulin dependency and they will defeat diabetes and find the cure!
Being the grandmother of an 8 year old granddaughter with Type 1 Diabetes, I am thankful for any opportunity to make strides in the advancement of research to cure Diabetes. Ella has had diabetes since she was 4 years old, and has, for the most part, taken it in stride and not left it hold her back from participating in normal childhood activities (soccer, softball, cheerleading camp, and just being an active young girl). However, she is still at danger of having high and low sugar episodes that can cause health problems. She and our family members must be diligent to watch for the symptoms of this disease and treat her with her insulin pump regularly throughout the day. Ella has a great attitude about the fact that she has diabetes, and recently when asked by a young boy at school what her monitor was, she nonchalantly stated, “That’s my continuous glucose monitor. It keeps my sugar levels under control” and went skipping off to play.
I would like to thank Congress for their support of the FDA to issue prompt and appropriate guidance on artificial pancreas technologies. My wish for 2012 is to open up the door for aggressive research and approval of the use of the artificial pancreas. My hopes and dreams for my granddaughter, and thousands of other individuals suffering from Diabetes, is that one day (in my life-time) she (and others) can be free from insulin dependency and we will defeat diabetes and find the cure!