In support of both World Diabetes Month and Thanksgiving, the blogging community has launched a new opportunity to share your story – this time by posting your Diabetes Blessing!

This one is easy for me.  I am blessed that my husband has lived with type 1 diabetes for fifty years, and even though he has experienced almost every complication imaginable, he is doing great and enjoys life!  I am also blessed that we have been married for 25 years (tomorrow – November 24, 2010!) and, together, we do everything in our power to make sure that promising diabetes research continues to be funded – and better treatments and cures are just around the corner.

Since I’m also a renegade at times, I’m also going to break the rules and share my Diabetes Wish as well.  My husband and I both wish that the Special Diabetes Program will be renewed when Congress returns after the Thanksgiving holiday.  If it ISN’T renewed, type 1 diabetes research funding will DROP by 35%!  Clinical trials will be dropped or scaled back!  We can’t let this happen!

I wish all of you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.  And, as you give thanks with family and friends, why don’t you tuck in your little wish that the Special Diabetes Program be renewed!

Please leave your wish in the comments below.