Anyway, once again “diabetics” are treated with a stigma and dismissed. Nobody cares about us, or the man who enabled all of us Type 1 diabetics to still be alive today (for better or for worse..).

Type 2 diabetes (the kind usually related to obesity) has swept over the world like a plague, along with fast food consumption. Most 350 lb people just don’t get the same sympathy as Type 1 children, but they get the attention, since Type 2 is commonplace and preventable.

The preventable Type 2 diabetes cases caused by poor lifestyle wipe out all sympathy and compassion for those with Type 1, who get lumped in there. People think we did this to ourselves. We get overshadowed and belittled.

Or perhaps people are put off because we have to inject ourselves to live. Plus, we have all seen the diabetic who “didn’t take care of themself” (uh..YOU try being your pancreas successfully daily from the age of 3), lying there blind and on dialysis on a hospital bed. It turns people off. Especially when they think that insulin should prevent all problems 100% if we only bothered to simply take it. Perhaps they think death is preferable to diabetics *living* like this. Who knows? We can’t deny that insulin is NOT a cure.

Whatever the reason, diabetics are always blamed for their problems and marginialized. In this case, flat out disrespected. Typical. If this was the house where breast cancer was cured, you can bet that no lobby group to save it would be ignored, or even needed for that matter.

Heartbreaking that the last remaining family member’s deathwish was that the property would be restored and become a camp for kids with Type 1. I bet he is spinning in his grave…this is truly so sad.

I think it’s only fitting for his homestead to be turned into something that will continue to help children affected by this disease.

I feel trully indebted to the man. If not for him, my son would have died at the age of three.