Today is the first day of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge. Today’s prompt is to write about a health time capsule. If I had to create a time capsule for diabetes, which wouldn’t be opened until 2112, it would contain a few of the blood glucose meters we currently use. It would also have samples of the insulin pumps that are available today, along with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices.
I would include printouts of some of the blog posts from the Diabetes Online Community and a list of the major organizations that support people with diabetes. A couple videos about diabetes camps and other programs for kids and adults with diabetes would be in there too.
As far as what the folks who open the time capsule would say when they see this stuff, that is easy. They would simply say: “What the heck is diabetes?”