This is an ad, not an article. You don’t even come close to addressing chronic illness. You picked one, type 2 diabetes, then proceeded to give your company’s progress and diagnosis and everything else but a true description of the process of the disease and following one person’s relationship, from daily duties with it to crises, with it from start to finish. I’ll never be pulled into one of your articles again. Chronic illnesses span a wide range — from breast cancer patients to patients with liver disease to fibromyalgia to type 2 diabetes AND type 1 diabetes — and note that some of them lead to death. I had liver disease for 11 long years that was completely untreatable except by transplant. It took that long for me to get sick enough (by standards set by UNOS — United Network of Organ Sharing) and find the right transplant center which aggressively pursued transplant for their waitlisted patients. In that time, I lost my home, my retirement fund, now drive a 27-year-old car, and turned 70 this month. I fought back. As do most people with chronic illnesses. Don’t compare type 2 diabetes to breast cancer or liver disease or type 1 diabetes. You creep me out.
