Diabetes Awareness Month, living in the shadow of Breast Cancer

[Northerner]

Here we are in the pink month of October and once again, as a woman with diabetes, I feel like the ugly step-sister. I drive my car to Target and see the pink ribbon bumper stickers, I open the newspaper and read the front page profiles of breast cancer survivors. Every year it?s the same thing. Hordes of men, women and children across the country register for the Susan G. Komen 5k races, while others dye a strand of pink in their hair. Various charities put on art or food and wine events to raise money for breast cancer and every where I look there is this powerful storm of a community, raising awareness about breast cancer.

And then November, Diabetes awareness month, rolls around and I feel second best.

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