I would Kiss Diabetes Goodbye and welcome a life without finger sticks and insulin pumps. I would not miss worrying about potential small blood vessel damage, nerve damage or looming heart disease.
As I kissed diabetes goodbye, I would first thank it for teaching me about healthy eating and the crucial role of exercise in overall health. I would also say thanks for the friends I have because of diabetes. I would keep these valuable lessons and keep my amazing friends and then joyfully let diabetes move along.
I’d like to kiss diabetes goodbye to celebrate my new healthy habits of eating right and exercising every day!
I’d like to kiss diabetes as a way to honor my sister, who was taken from us at age 58, due to diabetes complications.
I’d like to kiss diabetes goodbye because millions of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, grandmas and grandpas all over the world are needed and loved by their families.
I’d like to kiss diabetes goodbye because if I’m kissing diabetes, it’s outside of my body, and not in it anymore!
But before I kiss diabetes goodbye, I’ll like to tell it Thank you for the wakeup call about how I should take care of my body. I’m much healthier because diabetes forced me to make my own health a priority in my life. Diabetes tried to defeat me, but it only made me stronger!
I really hate diabetes. It is mean---unpredictable--- unrelenting--- uncompromising--- insensitive ---debilitating -- it is an insidious disease.
I hate it for lots of reasons --- I hate it most of all because it killed my youngest son! Marc didn’t have to die, but he did --- he died because he lost the fight against diabetes.
We’ve lost a child to diabetes. There is no greater pain. It is every parent’s worst nightmare. Those of you who have experienced such a loss will understand; and I pray that those who haven’t never will.
When we kiss diabetes goodbye, we will also say goodbye to the 189,000 test strips that we won't need during Abbey's lifetime. We will use her sweet little fingertips for kissing and holding hands and playing her violin instead of checking her blood glucose. Abbey would prefer not to "kiss" diabetes goodbye, rather to kick it out the window!
Bishop Lance and Dr. Kara Davis, South Holland, Illinois
Millions of Americans live year after year with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, developing complications without even knowing they have the disease. We'd like to kiss diabetes goodbye for their sakes.
This is a mother's plea. Help me take the "die" out of diabetes. My seemingly healthy nine-year old son, Jordan, passed away in his sleep from complications pertaining to undiagnosed type 1 diabetes. We must kiss diabetes goodbye.
