Posted by Grace K.Johnston on April 25, 1998 at 09:44:39:
I have a beautiful 6 1/2 year old son, diagnosed 13 days before his first birthday. At that time, I was told that there would be a cure by his 8th or 10th birthday. I had something to look forward to.Five and a half years later, I don't see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel for a cure!
BECAUSE........
The researchers are all scrambled up all over the country.
I would like to know if all the researchers all over the country could get together to share their ideas and their research in a forum so, that they could really find a cure! If two researchers are doing basically the same thing in different parts of the country, one researcher may be further along then the other one by 6 months to a year in his/her research. It would give that researcher the information to catch up or confer with the other one who knew more. The way they are doing it now, is a waste of money, and
precious time in the lives of young diabetics as well as the older Type II's.
Also, I feel very disgusted with the whole matter, if dreaded diabetes was cured, it would put the company's that produce the strips and glucometers out of business, and all those people who work for them would be out of jobs! Oh my, we wouldn't want that, now would we?
This is why I feel they will not find a cure for my son's disease and the countless other people I have met in the past five years who have had it and who were just recently diagnosed with this dreaded life threatening,
very demanding disease!