That Stupid Pancreas!

Having read the title of this post, you might be a little confused. This blog is about diabetes. That's the topic! I'd bet that all my readers either have diabetes or are related to/friends with someone with the condition. But I was sitting in front of my laptop today, thinking about what the heck I was going to write about, and I blanked. Nothing all that interesting diabetes-wise has happened to me this week. No supernatural phenomenon has opened my eyes to a brand new way of life. But this blog is about diabetes, right? So I had to think of something to write about concerning diabetes that I haven't written about before and is captivating. I got nothing. Then I realized that diabetes affects a lot of aspects, scratch that, pretty much every single aspect of my life. It affects everything I eat, any activities I do, my family, my friends, my health, my body, the way I think, the way I act. From the moment of my diagnosis, not a day has passed that I've been able ...

** October 28th-30th, 2018, 28 delegates from across Canada went to Parliament Hill in Ottawa to meet with over one hundred MP's and Senators collectively for JDRF's Kids For a Cure Lobby Day. I had the wonderful opportunity of being one of the delegates from Toronto! It was a really great experience for me for a multitude of reasons, all of which I will be going over in this post! So sit back, grab some popcorn, and tell your family not to bother you for a while, as it's quite a long list. First off, let me explain a bit more about what Lobby Day is. One of the things we went to meet with Members of Parliament about was giving a huge thank-you for the government's multi-year commitment to fund Type 1 Diabetes research through the $30 million Partnership to Defeat Diabetes that was instituted in 2017. That's a lot of money, and every penny of it will be going towards research for an end to our condition, so thanking the government was a huge part of Lobby...