Creative storyteller & advocate shaking up society's perception of normal. #bantingst1dcousin 📖 Out Went the Moon
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✨️🩵 World Diabetes Day 2023:
Everyone living w/diabetes & using #insulin should have access to the drugs & devices they need.
#access4all #cgm4all #changetheADP #insulin4all – at London, Ontario
Gentle reminder: you can live with diabetes & NOT celebrate NDAM.
There is nothing about living w #chronicillness that obligates you to raising awareness.
There is nothing about living w #diabetes that obligates you to share your story & experiences.
PLEASE remember this.
1/3 – at London, Ontario
#NDAM is an opportunity to raise awareness & highlight life w diabetes but for some, it can be overwhelming to see your feeds flooded w diabetes while your life already is.
PLEASE be gentle with yourself this month & mindful of those who prefer to watch it slip by quietly.
2/3 – at London, Ontario
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
On CBC Radio's Afternoon Drive, she explained that many people - like her - struggle with the high costs of medication even though they currently have a drug plan.
It's not enough to talk about the uninsured, she said. We need to revamp the whole system.
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8…
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
On CBC Radio's As It Happens, she called on the Liberals to fulfil their pharmacare promise.
"A national public drug plan would expand access to medications for everybody...It would be such a shame to squander this tremendous opportunity,"
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2… (At 1:07)
100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize & people still can't access insulin.
#universalpharmacarenow
thestar.com/opinion/contribu… – at London, Ontario
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
You see the black and white photos of kids with type 1 diabetes dying from ketoacidosis but unfortunately you could take colour photos of kids dying from ketoacidosis *today*.
It's gotta change #insulin4all #T1D
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
"We hear a lot about the insulin crisis in the U.S... we assume that it isn’t happening here. That couldn’t be further from the truth"
Great piece by @RebaRedmond on the urgent need for #Pharmacare in Canada
@HealthyDebate
@CdnDrs4Medicare
healthydebate.ca/2023/06/top…
The real cost of not adopting universal pharmacare is Canadian lives healthydebate.ca/2023/06/top… via @HealthyDebate
@londoncoc – at London, Ontario
Being an ally makes a positive difference to others.
I am proud to be at @ArthurFordPS where the undercurrent to June is allyship.
@TVDSB
#June
#Pride
#NIPD2023
#OurLondonFamily – at London, Ontario
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
We heard from @RebaRedmond, relative of Frederic C Banting, co-discoverer of insulin. She has Type 1 diabetes, and shared about her dual struggle of managing blood sugars and managing the cost of insulin and equipment.
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
ONE of the Canadian families stunned by 3,000% increase in price of life-saving drug
(As Kelly Crowe of writes in @CBCNews) is Erin Little's @authenticallye, a concerned mother, advocate & a panelist on Wednesday at our Public #Pharmacare event in #LndOnt
cbc.ca/news/health/second-op…
ALT Erin Little with her daughter Olivia, 7, who has cystinosis — a deadly genetic disease that destroys her kidneys. The live-saving drug Olivia takes is being replaced with one that costs 3,000 per cent more. (Photo submitted by Erin Little)
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
Join us Wednesday at our Public #PharmaCare NOW! Town Hall at 7 pm in the Kenny Theatre, @KingsAtWestern in #LdnOnt & hear Avi Lewis discuss the costs of chronic illness with panelists including #Banting's relative & diabetes advocate @rebaredmond & @lifespinorg 's Nicole Davis
ALT Poster reads "Public Pharmacare NOW Town Hall, hosted by AVI LEWIS, May 17, 7 pm, Kenny Theatre, King's College, Epworth Ave. London, ON" + a photo of Avi Lewis.
Rebecca Redmond retweeted
In #ldnont, @londoncoc @Ldn_Labour & Ldn Health Coalition are hosting @avilewis, @authenticallye, #bantingst1dcousin @rebaredmond & @lifespinorg's Nicole Davis for a convo about living with chronic illness
@CdnDrs4Medicare @FairVoteCanada @OntarioHealthC @ontarionurses @OFLabour
