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There is nothing whatsoever personal in my comment above relative to your own post. And I am not challenging your desire to make such requests.

I hope you’ll understand.

I’m so very pleased that someone actually commented before myself.

I’ve given this year to the leukemia people, the breast cancer people and the girl scout cookie scammers and the sweet innocent young students on the annual magazine drive for their school which is always seemingly perpetually underfunded yet in one of the most affluent school districts and counties in northern California which homes average over one million dollars and whose students are highest rated in most California evaluations. The local high school has all the appearances of a college campus with its tennis courts, baseball field, swimming building, basketball building, football field, soccer field etc… And every election the school districts want more and more millions of dollars. If a proposal fails, the next election cycle you get to vote again for greater millions.

The promises of the ppl asking for the monies are "I" will run or walk x number of miles and please donate or (subliminally, if you don’t you are an unmitigated cruel, unsocial, bastard).

I haven’t a major complaint (well, because a bunch of this stuff is tax deductible) but can someone, anyone please demonstrate ANY evidence, the monies are properly distributed, or whether there is ANY evidence other than anecdotal that something is actually being accomplished.

Here in the San Francisco, area, there is a radio station that has something called the annual curethon. Over the years, they have raised over TEN million dollars but there has never been one scintilla of evidence that anything has ever been accomplished.

So the question is:

Are these charity scams requests, simply social loyalty tests or is there something actually going on other than shipping one’s money into someone else’s pocket ?

Selfishly, I’d love it if you put your money into the disease that slowly killing my wife.  But the reality is, we don’t really know exactly how it works or how to fix it.  Money poured into research to cure it might help her, but it might just as easily be tons of money poured into a blind alley: an effort done too soon, done without the basic and more general research necessary to point us in the right direction.

Diabetes, however, isn’t like that.  While we don’t know everything, we do know quite enough about it to make the disease more and more livable and less and less harmful.  The technology and treatments are sound: they just need to advance a couple of steps down the road.

My aunt was one of the first to get a pancreas transplant, which was amazing in itself, and here we are just a few years later and we are already years, not decades, away from having complete and self-regulating insulin systems… not to mention the possibility that we may soon be able to reactivate pancreatic cells outright.

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