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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Diabetes Advocate from Health People and Church Alive on Diabetes Education and Funding
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A diabetes advocate from Health People and Church Alive testifies about the importance of diabetes education and funding. The speaker shares personal experiences with diabetes, emphasizing the need for tools, education, and community support to manage the disease effectively.
- The advocate has been a diabetic for nearly 30 years and demonstrates the daily insulin injections and monitoring required
- They highlight the Diabetes Self-Management Program (DSMP) and its importance in saving lives
- The speaker urges the council to vote yes on the Diabetes Neglect speaker's initiative to provide community education and funding for diabetes management
UNKNOWN
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Okay.
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So, thank you counsel for hearing us at Health People.
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I hope you understand the frustration.
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Ten years back and forth I've testified here so many times.
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Do I look the same Council?
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Do I look the same?
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I've been here last month with Doctor.
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Dre and I just want to say this.
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This is what it takes for me to function as a diabetic.
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I'm going be a thirty year diabetic in November, so this costs a thousand dollars just to have this injection.
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So, I wake up with injections and this is my three time injection a day and this is what I go to bed with my other injection.
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We need the tools so that we can win as diabetics.
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So, I'm going blind in my right eye and I speak about this often when I come here and thank you for hearing me and this is our tools.
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We have to have a meter which is on my arm so I know my numbers at all times.
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We have to know that we have secure food in our community.
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First, more than anything, health people saved my life.
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I say it all the time and it's because I had education.
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We need the SMP and I'm asking this is a picture of my mom.
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I just wanted to bring it today because we had a diabetes education action summit with the Bronx Borough President.
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It was health people that initiated it with the Bronx Borough President Vanessa L.
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Gibson and Bronx Care.
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So, we put that together so that we can save diabetics.
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I just ask that you care about me and everybody else just like me.
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There's millions of us.
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Doctor.
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Dre testified the last time.
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Doctor.
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Dre is he went blind.
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He's an amputee and I'll be out there on M.
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C.
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Sherlock Day on the seventh on stage and we'll be telling people that DSNP is important and that is education.
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So, please we're asking you, we're asking you at Health People for all the community based groups to vote yes.
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When this comes up, I am asking you as a diabetic to please vote yes in the Diabetes Neglect speaker's initiative to provide community education.
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I also wanna say this last thing.
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I'm testifying doctor Timothy Burkett from, Church Alive could not be here.
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He does all the Yankees food drives for years, thirty years in the community.
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He's going I don't want to say his diagnosis, but you can see my teeth.
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I barely have teeth left.
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Right?
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So teeth, your heart, your eyes, your kidneys, and your veins are affected and amputation from diabetes.
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So I'm just asking you to care about us enough to help give some funding for diabetes and I thank you so much for your time.
Lynn Schulman
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Thank you very much.
UNKNOWN
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My pleasure.