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World Diabetes Day - 14/11/08

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Hi there faurfi
Welcome to the site - 🙂. Well done on your lighting up! The official launch on this site is happening on World Diabetes today!
 
What a lovely building, Fiona! I hope you can share a photo of it when it's blue at some point.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't know what to do. Until today I'd never heard of World Diabetes Day and I, quite frankly, don't have a clue what the point is (besides raising awareness most probably).
 
I have heard of diabetes day bu ti thought it was in june, not had any notice to organise something, its a shame.
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Well done Fiona. It is a pity World Diabetes Day is so close to Children In Need as it is so dificult to get anyone to support or show interest in diabetes when every one is dressed as a one eyed teddy bear.
 
I agree Bill. But children with diabetes are 'children in need' so maybe they could be included too. I don't know how the kids are picked to go on Tv on the night but hopefully sooner or later a diabetic kid will be on and then they can mention it is World Diabetes Day too.

Nicky, raising awareness is the whole point. I tend to use it as an opportunity to step back from the daily slog and think how lucky I am to live in this country where I can access insulin, supplies and healthcare free at the point of use. Diabetes seems to be low profile, it does not have the trendiness of the coloured ribbons for the breast cancer or AIDS charities, diabetes charities don't seem able to get branded products into shops as breast cancer ones can or get celebrities to wear tshirts on their ad campaigns or organise runs and other events with as high a profile. People get a lot of misinformation about our condition from the media, the media never says 'type 1' or 'type 2', just 'diabetes and obesity' or 'diabetes and heart disease', and it is so important to try and publicise it and give people the truth.
 
Lizzie said:
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Diabetes seems to be low profile, it does not have the trendiness of the coloured ribbons for the breast cancer or AIDS charities, diabetes charities don't seem able to get branded products into shops as breast cancer ones can or get celebrities to wear tshirts on their ad campaigns or organise runs and other events with as high a profile. People get a lot of misinformation about our condition from the media, the media never says 'type 1' or 'type 2', just 'diabetes and obesity' or 'diabetes and heart disease', and it is so important to try and publicise it and give people the truth.
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The media tend to give high profile to something they think will sell papers.
After my first stroke, I often said that if I had a large bandage round my head it would be more meaningful to any observer.
The same seems to apply to diabetes. The highlight here in Scotland (and perhaps many parts of the UK) is on obesity and T2.
T1 is rarely mentioned.
The 'Silent Assassin' posters were great, but somehow having a coronary or stroke in a public place seems to attract much more media attention than some diabetic becoming comatose with a hypo.
The only time this hits the media is if some young child knows what's happened to his Mum at home, produces the biscuits and 'phones the emergency services.

I would like to see Diabetes awareness day/week publicised and promoted well clear of any other medical or fund raising event; perhaps late September.
 
I agree, children with diabetes are 'children in need' but of all the bits I watched Diabetes was never mentioned. You would think that because both days coincided this year they would have used the opportunity to try and raise the awareness of Diabetes.
 
Just mentioned this in another thread, there is a lot of ignorance about what diabetes actually is and it's side effects among the general public at large, it's just seen as some quirky illness to do with sugar which you control using tablets or injections. The heart disease/kidney failure/blindness part of it isn't widely appreciated.
 
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