Health committee  Yes, because we don't have fingers.... I think the forms need to change. They need to be more adaptive. I think it would help if we had a tailored form for just diabetes, and maybe even somebody who knows what they're doing looking over these instead of just going across anybody

Health committee  I get asked every year, “Are you still alive?” I have to call them and I have to get a signature proving that I'm still alive because they basically can't believe that's happening. The thing is that I'm diabetic for life. It's not going away, although I'd like it to.

Health committee  Dollar test strips?

Health committee  We don't have a nurse in our current practice.

Health committee  You get chemo and they say, “We'll worry about the diabetes later.” I'm thinking that I'm not even 36 here.

Health committee  She brought me in this morning. I'm freaking on Sparks Street.

Health committee  Yes, you do, don't you?

Health committee  The thing is diabetes isn't just one problem. It's like an onion. You just keep peeling it. What's really funny is I can't get any help anywhere except for one place. You're not going to believe where I get it. The City of Oshawa has a RAMP, recreation access membership program,

Health committee  The world health, yes. The paradigm is really interesting.

Health committee  I think one of the things I'd like to see is a recognition of—I don't know how to put this politically correctly—ethnicity. I'm French Canadian. You guys all know that, but I'm also native. I eat a little differently from other people. When I go to the nutritionist at the clinic,

Health committee  It is.

Health committee  Yes, please.

Health committee  Well, the 360° would address a lot of that, because I think that a lot of people don't understand just how bad this is. I was at the forum last February and I spoke for world health. They have this wonderful paradigm that they want to introduce here in Ontario that would give

Health committee  I have no access at all.

Health committee  I just know that I'm always another diabetic. I know that when I come in the door it's, “Oh, another diabetic”.