Nothing to do
There's a bike ride happening Saturday morning, but I have been unable to ride a bike, due to my asthma, for the last eight years.
The JDRF is having a building light-up ceremony, but their email that they sent me made it very clear that this is for children and families. I attended their ceremony last year, and I was brushed off and excluded -- asked to please step out of the photos, not appear in the videos, give my blue candle to one of the children so that they could have their picture taken, asked where my "child with diabetes" was and asked why I was attending when I didn't have a diabetic child.
There are hula-hoop contests taking place in local schools on Friday, but there isn't any way for an adult diabetic to take part in them.
So there's nothing for me to do on WDD. It's just another day.
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Permalink Reply by nel peach on -
Would this work for you : poken your finger at 2 pm ...exercise for 14 min, poke again and let TU know your results ??
Victoria is showing 2 events at the Canadian World Diabetes website : 1 ) JDRF sponsored ( does not say that ) ???: 5-6 pm candle light , blue -la-hoopla challenge at Carnegie Library 2 ) JDRF sponsored ( does not say that ) ?? UVIC 3 pm Blue-la hoop Challenge in front of Student Union Building ..
I am with you, if you claim you cannot hoola -hoop ...I tried hoola hooping in the fifties and was hopeless at it ....
Besides the bike ride one of the TU members and her hubby is doing /organizing.
Maybe you can cheer them on , while they take off or come home ??...can you get to talk to your local radio station and have a press release or ??
How about putting up blue lites at your apt. building /window/balcony ?? ...small stuff , that can create awareness ..we have our lights up since Novemebr 1 .
I also wear my IDF blue pin regularly ...I wonder , if Julie from the CDA has some available for you ? I gave my spare away yesterday and the lady was sooo pleased , being able to wear the pin ...off to have TEA ...the Victoria way ;-)
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Permalink Reply by rainbowgoddess on
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The Carnegie Library (silly that they call it that; it's been a bank for years) is a JDRF thing just like the Blue Bridge was last year.
I was unaware of the hoop-la at the university, but that would be for university students.
I will probably go see off the bike riders, since they're not far from my apartment.
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