Welcome to the Big Bad Blogger Challenge ‘09 week of posts, organized by my dear friend Alicia.
Topic for today as suggested by Hamlet Au of NWN: Upload a photo of a real world person, place, or thing which is directly related to your Second Life experience. Explain how it is.
My Insulin Pump
This is my rl insulin pump, the artifical pancreas that keeps me alive and kicking. I spent several years looking for a doctor that believed in them as a treatment and when I found one I kept him, over 10 years later he’s still my endocrinologist and friend. After my mom developed diabetes she got one too. Then my cousin, my aunt. Anyway. I felt like I always wanted to design something in Second Life that was meaningful and lasting, a contribution I could stand behind, and when Tymm mentioned it during our Man Behind the Goatee interview, I came up with the idea of a virtual Insulin Pump, which lead to the gallery here of Insulin Pump Hotties, and my efforts to support the jdrf through my SL store and creation of the Juvenille Diabetes Foundation in sl, our tag is “I’m Sugar-free”, which I love. The Youtube video I made of my friends wearing the pump…. Yeah, it’s meaningful…. It’s even led to me being contacted by Dutch TV, Chicago radio, national director’s for diabetes education, and a research hospital. I’m not a poster child for diabetes care, my eyes and the complications I have as a young man could have been avoided, but the education I’m getting to do now, is very special to me.
All of the diabetes stuff mentioned above can be found at my diabetes page here.
Noel.
Your work to help educate people impresses the heck out of me. You are a very special person. Great post, BTW!