http://childrencantwait.org Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:39:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://childrencantwait.org/2010/01/holdens-story/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Mary Jo Gurule Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:39:58 +0000 http://childrencantwait.org/?p=846#comment-229 Ms. Hanchette. Thank you for taking time to bring this to our attention. We do realize that diabetes is not a “death sentence” and apologize if this came across as the tone of this tweet. We also agree that a better choice of words could have been used for this communication. In the future, we will make sure this is looked at closer to avoid any misrepresentation of our services to our followers. The intention of this tweet was to show a positive story about a young boy who was diagnosed with diabetes, and thanks to early intervention, he is living a happy, healthy life. We greatly appreciate the feedback from our followers and will work to ensure that future tweets are more accurate in their description. Ms. Hanchette. Thank you for taking time to bring this to our attention. We do realize that diabetes is not a “death sentence” and apologize if this came across as the tone of this tweet. We also agree that a better choice of words could have been used for this communication. In the future, we will make sure this is looked at closer to avoid any misrepresentation of our services to our followers. The intention of this tweet was to show a positive story about a young boy who was diagnosed with diabetes, and thanks to early intervention, he is living a happy, healthy life. We greatly appreciate the feedback from our followers and will work to ensure that future tweets are more accurate in their description.

]]> http://childrencantwait.org/2010/01/holdens-story/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Kim Hanchette Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:43:49 +0000 http://childrencantwait.org/?p=846#comment-220 We were notified about this tweet by an alarmed community member. We know of and applaud your valuable program, but as someone who has taught diabetes management for 20 years, I believe that these types of "headlines" about diabetes being life-threatening and children almost dying do a disservice in the long run. We teach people every day who have found out they have diabetes and because of reading these types of stories, believe they have received a "death sentence". Hope future tweets will be positive in nature about your wonderful program. We were notified about this tweet by an alarmed community member. We know of and applaud your valuable program, but as someone who has taught diabetes management for 20 years, I believe that these types of “headlines” about diabetes being life-threatening and children almost dying do a disservice in the long run. We teach people every day who have found out they have diabetes and because of reading these types of stories, believe they have received a “death sentence”. Hope future tweets will be positive in nature about your wonderful program.

]]> http://childrencantwait.org/2009/07/welcome-to-our-advocacy-pioneers/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Mary Jo Gurule Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:37:54 +0000 http://childrencantwait.org/?p=233#comment-3 Looking great! Looking great!

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