Yes or No CURE... in your lifetime?

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Permalink Reply by Steve RRR on June 14, 2008 at 8:31pm

I do not wish to insult you for disobeying your instructions but that is a question that none of us can answer with certainty. We can only offer opinions. I know that at lease one disease was cured in the 20th century: polio.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 17, 2008 at 3:45am

Hello Steve:

Its a simple question, YES or NO in your lifetime.

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on June 15, 2008 at 7:08am

No

I thought so at 10 but after trying all the cures out there and ex. after the pancreas transplant failed I think their making too much money just keeping us alive with the insulin and bs teasting that it won't happen for awhile yet.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 25, 2008 at 11:44am

Hello Doris Ann:

Thank you for your reply as well.

I wonder aloud if there is a diabetic generational bent this way??? eg The more experienced one becomes, the less one believes a cure in our lifetime will occus??? Don;t know merely wondering (babbling) aloud...

Stuart

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on June 26, 2008 at 9:15am

Stuart,

I think that when we as youngsters think maybe sometime in out lifetime but as we get older and like me watch our own child become one we lose our hope in such a thing happining! I mean we do have to stop and think their keeping us alive with the insulin and bs control for some folks (like my mom) who was to far gone with cancer they couldn'y do anything for her! Let us not forget the other things out there too like AIDS birth defects and so on!

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Permalink Reply by Lara on December 20, 2008 at 3:03pm

Sure there's a generational/experience bent. I think when people are first diagnosed they drink the JDRF Kool-Aid of "five years until a cure". (Are they still spouting that BS?) After the years roll by, you just kind of stop thinking about a cure because they are not much closer now than 30 years ago.

I still have minor optimism about Living Cell Technologies, but that's the only team whose research I follow.

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Permalink Reply by mary ann jacob on June 25, 2008 at 11:36am

No I do not belueve so. mary ann

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 25, 2008 at 11:41am

Hello Maryann:

Thank you for your view! I wish I could disagree, I truly do...

Stuart

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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on July 12, 2008 at 3:55pm

No

They don't even know what causes type 1, so I don't see how they could possibly understand how to cure it. When I was a kid, I'd hear they were "this close". When I blew out my birthday cake candles (my mom let me celebrate my birthdays like normal kids even though that was a no-no back then), that was my wish for years. I remember telling her when I was about 10 that they must be close to curing it 'cause I'd had it for 5 years already. I despise that JDRF tells families 5-10 years. It breaks my heart that people pin their hopes on that. Luckily, I'm OK with my 'betes now, and I'm OK with the idea of living with it. I hope I have many, many more years to live with it in fact.

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Permalink Reply by Doris Ann Dickerson on July 12, 2008 at 6:33pm

Way to go Lee Ann!!! I'm with you on that!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by guy(abetic) on July 24, 2008 at 8:30pm

no- not even. polio didnt make the pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars each year like our disease does. there is way too much money to be made off of chronic diseases - at 35 i can safely say there wont ever be a cure in my lifetime...and i remember it all too well lee ann- every year at camp we were told that we were 'this close' to a cure...jokers!

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on August 25, 2008 at 10:00am

Hello Joe:
Wish there were one but I have zero faith it will...

Stuart

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