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Raise Your Voice
Help us share your stories with those who are new to blindness and diabetes!
The Raise Your Voice campaign is our newest project, and we want to hear from you! We want to reach other diabetics who have lost vision, or people who are newly diabetic and may be feeling discouraged, scared, or overwhelmed. Voice of the Diabetic readers know that people can and do manage diabetes with little or no vision, and no loss of independence. So share your story!
We also want to share your voices with pharmaceutical companies, pump manufacturers, blood glucose meter producers, and others in the diabetes industry and tell them how important it is to make their products accessible to diabetics with little or no vision. We hope to show those companies that there is a growing and vocal population of blind diabetics who need and deserve accessible diabetes technology!
So please, Raise Your Voice and add your story! Here’s how to do it:
Call the Raise Your Voice line at (410) 504-1940. After the recorded greeting, leave your story at the beep. It couldn’t be easier! Please keep a few things in mind.
• First, introduce yourself using your first name. Tell us about your
diabetes and blindness. (For example: “I’m Gail, a 38-year-old type
two diabetic. I was diagnosed six years ago when I was pregnant, and became
legally blind last year…”).
• Second, you don’t have to be a diabetes superhero to share your
story. Ordinary people living with diabetes and vision loss are inspiring enough!
Your story should be between three and five minutes, but even thirty seconds
is fine!
• Third, stay positive! Newly diagnosed diabetics or newly blind diabetics
need to hear success stories. Share thoughts, information, or stories that will
be helpful to others. What do you wish you had known when you first lost your
vision? How do you work around your vision loss, or other complications, such
as amputations and kidney failure? What are your successes?
Raise Your Voice and help others!
Watch the next issue of Voice of the Diabetic for details on how to listen to all the stories we collect.