Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In a remote village in northern Guatemala, a group of people is acting out the process of getting diabetes. One plays the mouth. Others are internal organs. The pancreas, after some food has entered the mouth, folds his arms and says, ‘No way, I am too tired, I cannot open the door and let insulin out today.’”
The other organs ask the pancreas, “How can we wake you up?”
“You have to be dramatic,” says Mary Ann Morris, a Nelson resident and Selkirk College nursing instructor who uses drama and other interactive techniques as part of training the group about the causes and management of diabetes. “They would sometimes stop the play and say ‘I don’t get it. What exactly is a pancreas anyway?’”
The village is Nuevo Horizonte, population about 400, created in 1998 after the Guatemalan civil war by guerrillas who had been living and fighting in the mountains for years. Rather than return to regular civilian life, they formed a cooperative village with the aim of creating a more just society.
http://www.nelsonstar.com/news/323141681.html
Took a while to realise they didn't mean Nelson, Lancashire! How come these colonials didn't have the imagination to think up new place names - it's forever catching me out! 🙄
The other organs ask the pancreas, “How can we wake you up?”
“You have to be dramatic,” says Mary Ann Morris, a Nelson resident and Selkirk College nursing instructor who uses drama and other interactive techniques as part of training the group about the causes and management of diabetes. “They would sometimes stop the play and say ‘I don’t get it. What exactly is a pancreas anyway?’”
The village is Nuevo Horizonte, population about 400, created in 1998 after the Guatemalan civil war by guerrillas who had been living and fighting in the mountains for years. Rather than return to regular civilian life, they formed a cooperative village with the aim of creating a more just society.
http://www.nelsonstar.com/news/323141681.html
Took a while to realise they didn't mean Nelson, Lancashire! How come these colonials didn't have the imagination to think up new place names - it's forever catching me out! 🙄