My issue is, Logan's birth seems to have set my own biological clock in motion, and it is ticking LOUD. I'm only 23, for Pete's sake. I'm also single, and so far from LOOKING for a boyfriend right now that its not funny. My heart still lies elsewhere. So why is it that looking even at baby clothes and diapers makes me act like a mother hen?? Why does looking at photos of my friends' kids make me tear up??
Maybe its partly nothing to do with babies at all. In the last week and a half I have adopted the alter-ego of Hypo Queen. My average bg on my meter was 72 last week. Today, of course, I havent had a reading below 180. I cant win lately!!
SO... I'm happy to take donations right now... I have room in my life for a baby or a working pancreas. I'll be happy to take both, but either one will satisfy if thats not a possibility.
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Unfortunately, I cannot donate a baby to you, seeing as I do not have one. However, I can talk to the family I live with to see if they would like to donate one of their screaming 3 or 4 year-olds if you would like. Now, in terms of the pancreas, maybe we can strike up a deal if you help out the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) by adding a World Diabetes Day banner to your blog.
Here's how and why:
We are in the midst of our preparations for the first UN-observed World Diabetes Day (www.worlddiabetesday.org) on 14 November this year, and I wanted to ask you if you would like to help us to spread awareness of this worldwide event and the theme we have chosen for it this year - Diabetes in Children and Adolescents.
It is estimated that over 200 children develop type 1 diabetes every day and there's no question that the disease often hits disadvantaged communities the hardest, and that children in the developing world can die because their parents are unable to afford medication. In many countries diabetes is still considered an adult disease and as a result can be diagnosed late with severe consequences, including death. Even after diagnosis many children experience poor control and develop complications early.
This is why one of our key objectives for World Diabetes Day this year is to double the number of children covered by the Life for a Child Program - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/go/wdd-2007/life-for-a-child. We also want to encourage initiatives that can help to reduce diabetic ketoacidosis (diabetic coma) and to promote the sort of healthy lifestyles which can prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes in children.
A version of the diabetes circle, the icon we used for our Unite for Diabetes campaign http://www.unitefordiabetes.org/ has now been adopted for World Diabetes Day and we have produced a number of web banners that you can view and download here http://banners.worlddiabetesday.org.
The way in which you can help us spread awareness of World Diabetes Day is to add one of the banners to your own blog, which we would really appreciate.
The UN's World Diabetes Day Resolution (61/225) was really just the first goal of an ambitious campaign that we have been leading. This is the first time a non-communicable disease has been recognised as a serious threat to global public health and we are hoping now to further raise awareness globally of the disease that is predicted to contribute to 6% of the world’s mortality in 2007.
If you would like to know more about the UN Resolution and our plans for World Diabetes Day this year, just drop me a line at stephanie.tanner@idf.org and I will get back to you with more information.
Enormous thanks,
Stephanie Tanner
IDF - Communications Assistant
Hey Katie, even at my age, a new baby sets off the longing to hold one. It never goes away.
Love you, Penny
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