"Cure. Care. Commitment. These are the words we live by at the American Diabetes Association."

Blah, blah, blah......Those are the words you will hear when you call the ADA hotline and tell them their indifference and apathetic resolve to push for C-peptide trials is atrocious. (If you choose to do so, of course -- details to follow.)

After I blogged yesterday about the ADA colossal let-down -- I neglected to tell you how we can lend guidance to the ADA mission. It is apparent they do not know how to make good use of their 501(c)3 for the sake of cure, care and commitment to diabetes. No worries, ADA - millions of diabetics are here to help you understand our needs.

Contact the American Diabetes Association at 1-800-DIABETES and tell them:

ALLIE BEATTY of The Diabetes Blog told us that you were NOT going to encourage your big pharmaceutical sponsors to start clinical trials for C-peptide. We need this to prevent and reverse complications from the disease...

From there the floor is yours to proceed. Their hours of operation are Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 8 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Please call and tell them you want C-peptide. When labs began making insulin they didn't make it with C-peptide. You want it! You deserve it! But most importantly -- you need it!

The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting story about a man who needed a drug to treat his ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. He could not get the funding for a large scale trial to approve the drug. I empathize, completely! See that picture of the Hulk? That's me. I'm angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.

As a type 1 diabetic, my concern for improving the lives of people affected by diabetes involves preventing and reversing the complications associated with the disease. The American Diabetes Association states the same somewhere in their mission statement. Ok ADA, put MY money where YOUR 501(C)3 is!!

When I called the American Diabetes Association and shared my excitement for the C-peptide treatment in human trials (in Sweden) reversing type 1 diabetic complications - I was floored when I heard their response.

Allie B: Can the American Diabetes Association please encourage a big pharmaceutical company to sponsor these trials here in the United States? The results in Sweden have conclusively shown reversal of complications associated with type 1 diabetes.

Mat P at the American Diabetes Association: The topic of C-peptide is very sexy in scientific forums. BUT - we don't like to tell big pharmaceutical companies what to do with their money because we don't like them to tell us what to do with ours.

Allie B (in my head): WHAT THE F%^&*)(*&^%$F do you DO as an organization to improve the lives of people affected by diabetes if you are not going to push for trials to prevent and arrest complications associated with the disease?

I'm afraid the American Diabetes Association and I do not share the same goals any longer. It was a long marriage, over 21 years - but I want a divorce. The largest diabetic organization in the United States is not willing to assist in getting a trial underway to prevent and reverse complications that could affect 2 million type 1 diabetics and between 2 and 4 million type 2 diabetics injecting insulin (without C-Peptide).

I didn't feel this way until I realized how disconnected their perception of diabetes is from the reality of the disease. What do you think?