Mommy, Will You Be Here In the Morning?

Recently, the CDA (Canadian Diabetes Association) launched an email campaign entitled "Mommy, Will You Be Here In the Morning?"

This is what it said:

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This fundraising email deeply upsets and offends me because it depicts a person living with diabetes as not only unable to live an independent lifestyle, but that it is a disease that completely defeats you.

Not once in my life have I gone to sleep with the fear that I will never wake up. And I do not require 24-hour guarded supervision. The campaign is really embarrassing for people living with the disease. I truly hope my friends and family never happen to see it, I think it would scare them and give them a false sense of what juvenile diabetes really is.

While it is true that there are SOME diabetics who choose to let the disease control their lives, this is completely untrue for most people living with the disease, myself included.

I work too hard to keep my blood sugar in control to see a fundraiser telling people that the disease in uncontrollable and devastating.