Monday, October 22, 2007

Writing to Ellen

My note to Ellen DeGeneres, inspired by Penny's blog post about Riley's diabetes.
Dear Ellen

I know this month you're focusing on raising awareness about a cure for cancer. And that's a great cause.

Well November 14th is World Diabetes Day and there are 2 million Americans that have Type 1 diabetes. Many of us get it as children and still have it when we grow into adulthood.

We'd love to have a cure, but because of insulin a lot of people think it HAS been cured. Trust me, it's not.

Check out our diabetes365 project at http://www.flickr.com/groups/mydiabetesathome/pool/ to see how diabetes affects us each and every day. Tell me how you'd feel if a child of yours was diagnosed at 3 and you had to give them multiple daily injections of insulin to keep them alive.

Please consider focusing on this terrible disease on your November 14th program.

Thanks

Bernard
http://blog.bernardfarrell.com
Maybe you'd consider dropping Ellen a note also?

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