Is it that moment your doctor looks you dead in the eyes and tells you your child has type 1 diabetes.
Would that be funny to you?
Is it watching people holding your child down as they scream out in pain, yelling at you to make them stop as nurses and doctors try to hook they up to life saving iv drips and taking constant blood sugar checks because at any moment your child could seize or worse. Would that be funny?
Is it the realization that life as you knew it is done and a new way of living will have to be mastered in ordered for your child to thrive and grow? Would that be funny to you?
Maybe it's the constant worrying, the constant stress knowing that this is all up to you to keep your child alive, the minute by minute second guessing, are you doing this right? did you count the carbohydrates right? have you administered the perfect amount of insulin dose? Well does that seem funny to you?
Or maybe when you see your child lying lifeless on the floor and can't get up due to a low blood sugar, would that cause a smile to cross your face? Would it make you happy to know the damage that is occurring due to high blood sugar in your child's body on a daily bases?
Would you find it funny if the medicine that kept your child alive could in an instant cause their death? No, I guess that is not too funny either.
Is it the fact that at night I can't even enjoy watching a movie without the ever growing thoughts to go check my child to ensure she is still breathing? The fact that all you want for your child is to be safe and healthy and no matter how hard you try you can't promise them that. The fact that in order for your child to live you have to cause them pain multiple times on a daily basis, tear are shed, sadness is shared. Is it funny that my child has been in the hospital more times then I can count. Please answer me...is that funny to you?
Would it be funny to you that a single cold or illness could send your child to the ER?
NO... then what is just so funny? What is it that allows you to think words like diabetic shock, which by the way can kill someone with diabetes can be added to a pop song? just because it rhymes with the previous verse? What is so funny that you feel the need to take a picture of a JDRF fundraiser and make rude and inappropriate jokes about it? What is it about diabetes that people just don't seem to understand the seriousness, the destruction that this disease can bring?
Is it funny that my child has to bleed 10 times a day, is it a joke that her fingers are rough and full of holes. Well maybe it's the 5 shots of life saving insulin that my child gets or the thoughts of heart attacks, blindness, stoke, seizures, nerve and kidney damage, and even death...well those are not so funny.
Can someone please tell me what the hell is just so funny about diabetes that this disease is not taken seriously at all. Misconceptions are shared within jokes, misinformed people are featured on popular t.v. talk shows spreading this crap to the masses. Magazines publish lies and make money off of them. What is it about type 1 diabetes that people have such a hard time understanding the truth about this disease.
Does the hurt and sadness and loneliness people feel when dealing with this disease make you smile?
I'm confused....I think I missed the punch line!!
This post brought to you by a single picture shared on facebook...
then they wrote "hint...JDRF stands for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation"
someone commented "That's awful! It's amazing how many people out there need basic nutritional knowledge. And it's sad that most of those people have kids."
they wrote back "very ironic isn't it. Let's pump people full of sugar and redeem ourselves with a donation to combat what was caused by what we were just pushing! Sorry if that sounds confusing but it's that messed up!"
someone wrote"That's the most amazingly ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I'm totally reposting this."
This is something that I don't find funny at all!!
PEOPLE NEED TO STOP OPENING THEIR MOUTHS ON THINGS THEY OBVIOUSLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!
Oh and thank you KFC for your donations and for your support of the JDRF and trying to find the cure!!
10 comments:
well said! thanks!
Very well said! There is NOTHING funny about this disease. I wish people would realize what it's like for our children AND for us!
We are here to support each other and inform those who don't know or understand. I explain to at least one person a day that sugar does not cause diabetes and that insulin does not cure it. Be well.
We need the facts to get out there! JDRF and the ADA need to initiate a campaign of public service announcements, dispelling the myths and spreading the truth!
Well said.
The misconceptions can only be eradicated with truth. It would be helpful if information was provided along side fundraisers like this...ones that can (obviously) be easily misunderstood by those who don't have a clue what we are up against.
I appreciate KFC's desire to help, but really, who needs that much soda? It's not a healthy choice for anyone!!
They could have at least made it a diet pepsi! But seriously... I can understand the wanting to help part, but a sign without a picture would have been sufficient.
It's about time you see donations for JDRF, instead of the other organizations. Not that they're not important either...Diabetes just seems to get lost in the mix and left behind a lot. Too bad the marketing department isn't educated enough to understand the offense in their advertisement. It would have been better served to donate a dollar for every purchase made, not just sodas.
Tracie the one thing that was really offensive where the other peoples comments about the fundraiser. Blaming parents for not understanding good nutrition and again how too much pop causes diabetes.
I have no problem with people buying an extra large pop for the JDRF because they are most likely going to buy it anyways. It's better that the money goes towards a cure!!
UGH...Some of this is so hard to keep educating about. Day-in and day-out we are not only acting as inadequate, substitute pancreata for our children...we are also left to defend ourselves. I don't know about you, but I am tired.
I posted this link on my blog about a week ago. I was so mad wen I saw it! It's so rude. I did see where someone schooled people and wrote a comment defending T1 Diabetics. People can be so cruel!
This is the reply someone made....
"...Juvenile Diabetes is TYPE 1 DIABETES. Which is not at all caused by eating crap food or soda. It's a failure of the pancreas due to all sorts of different reasons. (I myself have Type 1 Diabetes.) Type 2 Diabetes is caused by obesity and eating crap. So what you said is stupid.
But anyways.. whatever. :P"
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^TRUE DAT BRO. I`m pretty surprised so few people have realized this. >.<
As a Type 1 Diabetic myself, I always find it INCREDIBLY irritating when people fail to know the difference and just make the word "diabetes" synonymous with "OBESE LOLOL" when, in fact, that`s not the case with Type 1.
Personally, I`m nowhere near "obese," and very few Type 1 diabetics I know are, either.
IN SHORT: I highly recommend you get your facts straight before making comments that are not only offensive, but completely untrue as well.
*returns to quietly lurking on
oye, moments like these make me want to scream...then I realize that those idiots would silently think to themselves, "oh, she must feel guilty for causing her son's diabetes...maybe she didn't know sugar was the problem." It all goes back to the fact that there is no cure for the stupids!
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