And here is my letter in true D mom style about a show I blogged about here! I did as best as I could with 6 kids bothering me and a puppy with a cone on her head:) Here is the link to the episode
Hello Dr Oz,
My name is Nicole I have a 4 year old type 1 diabetic daughter named Cara who was diagnosed Feb 13th 09. My family and I have experience many ups and downs on this journey of discovering our new "normal". For me the most frustrating and damaging part to Cara and the type 1 community is all the misconceptions about type 1 diabetes that many individuals have.
I happened to be watching your show about diabetes last night and I was very disappointed that a DOCTOR did not take the time or effort to inform the public about the huge differences there are between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. At no point in your show or the part that I was able to watch do I recall you referring to type 2 as type 2 diabetes. I only heard the term diabetes used, which I believe leads to much confusion and misconceptions in the general public about the two different types of diabetes.
During your show you did a segment on eating to cure or eating to reverse diabetes, sorry I truly do not remember the wording of the segment I had to change the channel in my frustration. There is no cure for type 1 diabetes and to the general public watching I believed you not clarifying this point only adds to the confusion.
I have done nothing to cause my daughter to have type1 diabetes, too much sugar or a lack of exercise has not caused my daughter to have type 1 diabetes, there is no cure for type 1 diabetes, all of these and many many more are the misconceptions that the general public believe type 1 is.
I believe your show and the inability of you to take the opportunity to clarify the two has only strengthened all of these misconception that are out there. There is a difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes and I would have thought a show with a Doctor as a host would have made this distinction.
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and if you would ever do a show on type 1 diabetes I know a few type 1 mom's that would love to clear up many misconceptions and shed some light with true facts about type 1 diabetes.
Sincerely
Nicole
www.wecaralot@blogspot.com http://wecaralot.blogspot.com/
10 comments:
I think this is an awesome letter.
Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Lora :)
Nicole you are so awesome and you inspired me to do an on call and we are going to bombard this websites email about the d show . I wish I could show you my letter but I wrote one as well and hope they read them . You my dear have inspired me . Kuddos to you for having 6 kids too .
Thanks phonelady :)
YOU ROCK NICOLE!!! You show'em how it's done!!!
Great letter!!!! Thank you for finding time to write it. I WILL find the time to watch the show and maybe even put in my 2 cents!
I think you did a great job.
Ditto what Meri said. I will find the time to watch then write.
Thanks!
Wow Nicole.. great job writing the letter. You are right, he should have informed the public about the differences. Type 1 is such a minority, we often get clumped with the majority. They did that same kind of speech at our WDD, it got my blood flowing...
Knowledge is power...
Let us know if you hear back from him.
I LOVE IT!!!!! Great job, great letter :)
Be sure to keep us posted on any response you might get!!!
Great letter! That is one of my BIGGEST frustrations too!! Let us know if you hear back from them!
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