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IT'S WORLD DIABETES DAY!!!

IT'S WORLD DIABETES DAY!!!
IT'S WORLD DIABETES DAY ! Tell the diabetic in your life that you love them!!!!!

Upcoming Diabetes Stand-Up Gigs & few previous gigs

Upcoming Diabetes Stand-Up Gigs & few previous gigs
Right now, 2 gigs are on the books. Thought I'd post them to get some positive vibes.

December 5th: Jefferson University Endocrinology and Insulin Pump group Christmas Party
Philadelphia, PA

January 27th: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International Diabetes Walk Awards Ceremony at Citizens Bank Arena, Philadelphia, PA. Snow Date 2/8/08

Feel Free to send me any funny stuff related to your Diabetes experience - I Triple Dog Dare you!
Previous gigs include:

DECEMBER - 2006 Integrated Diabetes Services Pump Meeting

WWW.integrateddiabetes.com


JUNE - 2007 DESA - Diabetes, Ecxericse and Sports Association's National Meeting in Colorado Springs -
www.diabetes-exercise.org

Here's to World Diabetes Day.....and Oh, Yeah - The Winner of my WDD Contest~


Here’s to World Diabetes Day and every single person effected with this disease.

Here’s to everyone spreading the truth about Diabetes, not the fallacies!

Here’s to Jane and Joe Six-pack realizing the
differences between t1& t2, educating themselves on our disease- and never, ever asking a person with diabetes, if “we are indeed allowed to eat that?”

Here’s to all of us owning our disease inst
ead of Diabetes owning us.

Here’s to the Children with Diabetes who are wise beyond their years and to their parents who are always there them, 24X7.


Here’s to the siblings of all the Children and adults Diabetics. Thank you for looking out for us, even when we torture you for it.

Here’s to all of friends – Thanks for always acceptin
g who we are, faulty pancreas and all.

Here’s to the research for a cure in our life time -lord knows we need one!

Here’s to celebrating who we are as both diabetics and people. Each of us are individual pieces of art. Imperfect, yet perfect in our own way, and who bring something unique and wonderful to the table of Life.


As promised, here are the results of my world Diabetes Day Contest. I gotta be honest, this was really hard for me, because I truly wanted everyone who entered to win.

Thank GOD my mom did the choosing, because I was REALLY TORN and if I had my way, everyone would have received a WELLalarm.



So, here's what went down - sans the crazy work schedule and prepping for my mom's Doctor's appt this afternoon - we are finding about her surgery to day - please keep your fingers and toes crossed!


First – I went and took a picture of my self all in blue – to show that I was wearing the color of the day.

I then wrote everyone’s name down on individual pieces
of paper, cut & folded said pieces of paper to place in my trusty DESA sports cap.




Then, I filled my DESA Hat with the “HOPES: of all

who entered the contest.



Next, I had my mom reach inside the hat and pick the winner.

AND THE WINNER IS...............


TA- DA





The winner is Karen from Bitter-Sweet Diabetes, whose hope was to always HAVE HOPE.

CONGRATS KAREN! And to everyone else who wrote such heartfelt, funny, inspiring, and straight from the heart hopes for World Diabetes Day. I truly thank each of you for your participation, your inspiring words, and your friendship! - YOU ALL ROCK IN MY BOOK!



So, back to the madness that is and was caused by Halle Berry

So, back to the madness that is and was caused by Halle Berry
So, back to the madness that is and was caused by Halle Berry. We all know the moronic statement she made (and I'm paraphrasing here folks) regarding how she was able to wean herself off insulin through diet and exercise and has gone from a type 1 to a type 2 - INSANE, I KNOW.

Well, yours truly (along with hundreds of others) called her publicist last week (I LOVE GOOGLE) and she actually called me back! Her name is Meredith O'Sullivan.

She told me that Halle was very upset that others, and myself were upset, and that she never actually said that statement, but blamed “The Actors Studio” for a botched editing job. She also said other media outlets picked up the statement and ran with it.
Meredith said that Halle is sorry that Diabetics are upset, but that she does not discuss her health publicly, as it is her business.

My response to Meredith's statement that if Halle is so private about her health, why has she not only gone public in the past regarding diabetes, has worked with NovaNordisk and JDRF, and has stated on her website that she is "an advocate of diabetes."

Why does America know she’s pregnant and why did she tell Oprah that she watched Jerry Springer while her and her honey between baby making rounds?

I told Meredith that Halle should come out and actually say something like "Along with most of America, I was misinformed regarding the differences between type one & type 2. I wasn’t just miss informed, I was misdiagnosed!" And then should could go on to state the differences between type 1 and type 2. I told Meredith that Halle needed to make a statement, misquote or not, because the wrong info made it to the public and that info could kill someone.

A TYPE ONE DIABETIC WHO DOES NOT TAKE INSULIN IS COMMITTING SUICIDE.

I also mentioned boycotts and said that no matter what movie Halle is in, or what product she hawks, Type 1's and their friends and family won't be spending a dime on anything related to her. And once again, I was told that while Halle was upset that others like myself were upset, she does not comment on her condition as her health is her business - and she was misquoted, both on television and in print. Such Bull Shit!!!

I wonder if Halle realizes how many people are upset & what her publicist is actually saying to her fans?

I am asking all of my friends out in cyberland to please call Halle's publicist and ask that Halle make statement regarding her "misquote" and get the proper info out there.



E-Mail: meredith.o'sullivan@42west.net
Her Office #'s in NYC and LA are:
212-277-7555
646-254-6024


Here are some links regarding her "misquote"
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/berry%20beating%20diabetes_1048407

http://perezhilton.com/?p=8119

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilituc/1878713680/in/pool-mydiabetesathome/

http://forums.childrenwithdiabetes.com/showthread.php?t=8720&highlight=Halle+berry&page=2

ABC News has this to say about HB Statement
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3822870&page=1

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/berry%20beating%20diabetes_1048407


And Just reminder for those that don't know:


TYPE 1 DIABETES is an autoimmune disease and the bodies cells actually destroy the part of the Pancreas that makes insulin. Type 1's must always and forever inject themselves with insulin (via needles or the insulin pump) in order to live. IF a type 1 diabetic goes without insulin, THEY CAN AND WILL DIE.

TYPE 2 DIABETES is metabolic disease. People diagnosed with Type 2 ARE INSULIN RESISTANT. However, their bodies continue to make insulin.
With weight loss and exercise, most type 2's can go off insulin and take oral medication.



It's World Diabetes Day - So Wave Your Diabetes Freak Flag & Spread The Gospel According To D!






Well, It's November 14th, World Diabetes Day- A day when every person with diabetes raises awareness of diabetes globally, regardless of their country, continent or religion.



It's a day where we wear blue and wave our diabetes freak flags and spread the gospel according to D!



We celebrate living and Doctors Banting and Best, while continuing to raise money and awareness for a diabetes cure.







We celebrate who we are and who we hope to become, and we celebrate others, including our diabetes brothers and sisters and our diabetes pit crew, who support and love us- broken pancreases and all!







So raise your voices loud and proud and bust those diabetes myths while perpetuating diabetes realities!







Show the world that diabetes has millions of different faces, including your own.






At 2 p.m. take part in The Big Blue Test , along with millions of others!



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Manny & I in NYC on November 13th - getting our diabetes blue on!

The Failure of Conventional Medicine (4)

The Failure of Conventional Medicine (4)
Big Pharma does not want you to know about the damage their drugs and vaccines cause to our lives. They want us to keep taking the medicine. regardless of the consequences. They seem intent on maintaining their profitability, regardless of the human consequences. The conventional medical (ConMed) Establishment, including most GPs, also refuse to tell us about the dangers of the drugs and vaccines they prescribe to use

This is a must-see internet article, which includes 3 videos: it is entitled 'What Vaccines can do to normal, healthy children'.
Drugs cause disease (as well as death), and there are many well-known examples of this. But with vaccines, this evidence can be dramatically witnessed. Child Health Safety have recently published an article that features 3 videos, prepared by parents who saw their 'normal' children permanently damaged shortly after taking vaccines. How does Big Pharma, and its apologists respond. Often with silence. Often with dismissal - that these cases are 'anacdotal'. Often with denial - there is no evidence linking the drug/vaccine with the result. And often with over-emphasising the seriousness of the illness the drug/vaccine is supposed to overcome. Rarely, unless seriously cornered, is Big Pharma, or the ConMed Establishment that supports it, prepared to remove the drug/vaccine in the interests of patient safety. So watch these videos, and see whether you agree with the parents - or the medical authorities!

Children who have been vaccinated have been found to have from 2 to 5 times more diseases and ailments than unvaccinated children. I have been told that this research is 'not sound' - to which my response is -why is the ConMed Establishment not doing its own research on the impact of vaccines on the health of our children. And of course, rubbishing 'negative' research is a regular part of Big Pharma's defence when they are accused of making us sick.

But regardless of the quality of some studies on the harm caused by ConMed drugs, the suspicions remain. Not least, the link between vaccines and Autism. This article suggests that vaccinated children are 20 times more likely to become Autistic. But the article does much more than this. It looks at the evidence for an increase risk of Allergies, Asthma, Hayfever, ADHD, middle-ear infections, and Sinusitis - and in each finds that vaccinated children fare worse than unvaccinated children.

Avandia is another drug that has cause massive problems. Recently, one Big Pharma company has paid out $3 billion in settlement for the way the drug was developed and marketed. Basically, they knew that this drug caused heart disease - but did not tell anyone. Note that this is a Reuters (News Agency) report. Yet the news has gone almost unreported in the mainstream media, who apparently don't consider that the safety of patients is something that should concern them. This is not unusual. There is a steady stream of litigation in the USA courts, regularly handing out heavy fines to Big Pharma companies. And mostly, they remain unreported. ConMed is failing - but we are the last to hear about it. To quote Reuters, who outlines some of these cases:

Since 2000 the number of industry settlements with U.S. states and the federal government has soared as authorities have taken an increasingly tough line on practices that may have put commercial goals above the interests of payers and patients, such as marketing drugs for unapproved uses.

Psychotropic drugs cause psychosis and death? This category of drug includes Prozac, Paxil, Ritalin, Haldol, Risperdal - and many more. They are known to cause heart attacks, diabetes, and sudden death, whilst on the mental side, they are known to cause insomnia and anxiety - but are also implicated in suicide, and violence - including murder amongst 'traumatized combat veterans.

Prostate cancer drugs can spur the growth of prostate cancer cells? Hearing about ConMed drugs that exacerbate the very condition they are given for is, unfortunately, not unusual. This article is, apparently, very topical at the moment - with a 'moustache growing' campaign currently in operation to develop awareness of prostate cancer. Is this a good thing? Well, not if the money raised through charitable donations go towards developing more dangerous Big Pharma drugs! Or, indeed, raising the profile of prostate cancer on the basis of a medical scare story. What is becoming clear is that prostate cancer is contracted by most men over the age of 50, and that most of them will outlive it naturally. Taking ConMed drugs, it would appear, is the way to ensure that you don't!

Another thing to beware of is that many health charities raise money to donate to Big Pharma specifically for the development of new drugs. And most of these charities get major funding from Big Pharma companies as a result. So before supporting any medical charity, first find out its connections with such powerful vested commercial interests that have profit, rather than your health, as their primary objective.

And we should not expect that the drug regulators will stand up to protect patients from dangerous Big Pharma drugs. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) are currently facing a fraud investigation. This article is taken from the appropriately named organisation "What Doctors Don't Tell You" - and of course, we are unlikely to hear about this from doctors, the NHS, the Department of Health, the government. The diabetes drug, Mediator, had been on the European market for 33 years. It was withdrawn in 2009, after being implicated in about 2,000 deaths. Yet the problems associated with the drug, it caused fatal heart problems, had been known about for over 10 years. The EMA was formed in 1995 to harmonise drug regulation in the EY. You will not be surprised that 80% of its funding comes from the Big Pharma companies.

Another regulatory agency, in the USA, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been found to have deliberately manipulated and covered up the relationship between Thimerosal in vaccines and Autism. In 2003, the journal Pediatrics, published a study from Denmark that observed a significant decline in autism rates following the elimination of Thimerosal in vaccines. "But thanks to the CDCs corrupting influece, the published version of the study ....  actually claimed the opposite, and alleged that removal of Thimerosal brought about an increase in autism rates". It would appear that anything is possible within the world of Big Pharma drugs and vaccines, and that the only casualty are the patients who take these drugs without having full information about them.

But this is not the only problem facing the CDC at the moment. There is an investigation into how this government backed organisation is spending US taxpayers money. "Although the CDC's main mission is supposed to be to prevent disease, a shocking investigation from Congress claims the profiteering agency has been squandering hundreds of millions of your tax dollars on Hollywood scripts, posh fitness clubs and amenities, parties and more".

And the former head of CDC, Julie Berberding (2002-2009), who was removed from her $250,000 post by President Obama, moved straight into a post with the Big Pharma giant, Merck, on a salary of $2,500,000. This article from Tim Bolen states that Berberding re-organised the CDC to help promote vaccines. If so, it appears to have been a profitable move for her. Berberding's other claim to fame, apparently, was that she refused to respond with full disclosure following a Freedom of Information request - which apparently would have revealed that the CDC knew about the dangers of vaccines many years ago.

Given all this, it is perhaps little wonder that it can take decades before the dangers of the drugs and vaccines we are offered are fully known. For instance, Amalgam contains mercury, and dentists have been putting this most-toxic of all poisons in our mouths for many decades now. How many of you have amalgam fillings in your mouth? Probably, most of us, especially if we visited the dentist during the 1970's and 1980's, when dentist were paid according to how many fillings they gave us! So whilst it is good to hear that there are signs that in the USA, amalgam fillings may soon be banned. Amalgam has been around for over 3 decades - and whilst moves may be afoot to ban its use in the the USA, in the UK there appears to be no such movement.


So how can the patient ensure that he or she is is safe, and not taking dangerous Big Pharma drugs? The answer becomes clear with just a little thought. Are we likely to be told by Government, the Department of Health, the NHS, or our own GP? Are drug regulators actively regulating drugs in the interests of patients?Are we likely to be warned about dangers of drugs and vaccines by the mainstream media? Are the drugs we are being prescribed today likely to be any better than the drugs we were taking 10 years ago, and which are now banned?


The answer, of course, is an emphatic 'No' to all this. Which can lead us to only one proper conclusion. We are all better off refusing to take any Big Pharma's drugs and vaccines, and instead, to look for safer alternatives.