Day 9: DSMA that I missed

I missed DSMA tonight so I'm going to answer the questions here and call it a day!

Q1. What are you doing to raise diabetes awareness in your community?

Honestly, it doesn't feel like much. I've been trying to post diabetes-related stuff on my Facebook this month and take every opportunity to educate. I want to be more involved, but I don't know how.

I do plan to use my blog to raise more awareness about the mental health aspects of diabetes through sharing my own stories, if that counts.

Q2. What types of awareness events do you feel are most effective? Or not effective?

If online "events" are considered, I think I've been doing a pretty good job of keeping up with DSMA (tonight nonwithstanding, lol) and with keeping up with the blog for Diabetes Awareness Month. I'm also good at things like Blue Fridays!

Q3. Who is your target audience when raising diabetes awareness?

The ignorant and ill-informed. The food police. The people who think we can't eat cake.

Q4. Is there such a thing as "too much" awareness?

If the message leads to people getting annoyed and rolling their eyes every time the D word comes up, yes.

Q4.5 Do you think more needs to be done throughout the year to build-up to Diabetes Awareness Month and wdd? what can we do?

YES. I want diabetes to be one of the top causes on everyone's lips. It made me so sad to get responses of "But I thought it was pancreatic cancer month?" and "It's Movember!" when I brought up Diabetes Awareness Month on November 1.

Q5. What other types of awareness events can the DOC do together to make a impact?

The JDRF ad was stirring, but there needs to be more. I want ALL people talking about it with anger and demands for a cure. I want athletes wearing baby blue shoes and painting their mohawks blue. How can we make that happen?