Artificially Sweetened

I haven’t participated in the Perfect Post awards before, but I saw a button on someone’s blog for them, on the same day that I read this post. I immediately emailed Lucinda and asked if I could nominate a post. (Links to the other Perfect Posts are up at her site and at Momma K’s.) Here’s my nomination:

With simple, direct words, and even more eloquent photographs, Sandra takes us through one of the routines of her family’s life with diabetes, changing her son Joseph’s infusion site. As she watches Joseph doing what he has no choice but to do, she reflects on the irony of this routine - how the doctors promised it would become as normal to them as brushing your teeth.

My words don’t do it justice. Read it. And then please - do something.

I once told Sandra that I didn’t think she should promise Joseph a cure, that too many of us had been promised a cure that’s always “just five years away.” But what she, and I, and each one of you, can promise to do, is work to make that dream a reality. For Joseph, for Daniel, for little Gracie, who is three, for Brendon, for Riley and for Julia’s beautiful O. - for all of them, for all the other children living with a disease that even grown-ups shouldn’t have to live with - not to mention for all of us.

Thanks. And thanks to Lucinda and Momma K. for hosting the Perfect Post awards.