Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Call to action: Help take a stand on Hypoglycemia

How would you feel if your blood sugar went low, and later you found yourself being prosecuted afterwards?

In a nutshell, this is what's happening to Doug Burns (Mr. Universe). Despite support from many folks, the district attorney seems determine to prosecute him.

Update: June 4. The district attorney has dropped this case and Doug Burns will not be prosecuted. Thanks all who participated in phoning the DA involved.

I'm supporting Amy Tenderich's call to action about this. Please read her blog post about the issue. Then call both the telephone numbers listed and leave a message. A long message.

My suggestion is to actually call both numbers and leave messages each and every day until the district attorney drops this case. Thanks Amy, for getting this going.

Labels: action, diabetes, justice

1 Comments:

At June 04, 2007 9:57 PM , AmyT said...: Unfortunately, there is a darker side to all this. See my latest post at
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/06/when_things_get.html

- AmyT

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