Sonia Sotomayor a Role Model for Kids With Diabetes

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My wife has been a type I for 30 years, and she is considering the pump. Can you tell me if the Judge uses one. We are struggling with this decision. Knowing what successful people do might inluence our decision.
Thanks for your help.

Joe Korowski of NH 10:06AM June 10, 2009

She certainly is arrogant enough and so full of herself as to be a blowhard.

Ken of WI 1:40PM May 28, 2009

I have to say it's good to see "regular people who've overcome adversity" as diabetic role models. The fact that she can see, walk, and hasn't had a heart attack after forty plus years of being diabetic is a wonderful example for children. This is a lifetime disease.
It's great to have an accomplished woman who doesn't have horrible complications out there on the national stage. Especially if she's doing something where low/high blood sugar makes it more difficult (we've all had those brain dead lows). I’d much rather my future children emulate a supreme court justice than a pop star!
Please support JDRF, and help find a cure!

Meg of MO 10:48AM May 28, 2009

and still think that burning or dismembering babies in the womb, for the sake of personal convenience, is a moral 'choice' - is to have gained nothing in the eyes of God. In truth, it is to have lost the only thing of eternal importance - your soul.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 9:57PM May 27, 2009

Yes my children with diabetes could look up to her as example of someone who lived in earlier days of diabetes treatment. But they don't live in her world and never will. To a teenager it might be interesting to hear her story of diabetes in 1963 but only as a history lesson. My children live in a world more similar to Nick Jonas in terms of technology and opportunities. They can relate to him. And that's why they look up to Nick Jonas (and one is older than Nick) as a role model. Yes he wears a pump but so do they. His song, checking his blood so often, keeping his A1C so low, traveling and running around a stage even when he doesn't feel well, his charitable service, staying positive all the time, those are the things that inspire my children (and me). So go ahead and hold her up as another example, but please don't be tempted to tear down the role model Nick Jonas is to thousands of diabetic children, teenagers, and their parents.

Kay of UT 4:01PM May 27, 2009

Thanks for writing this. I've been type 1 diabetic since I was six years old, and we can always use more role models - especially better ones than Halle Berry, who claimed to have been "weaned off insulin!"
Diabetes definitely doesn't have to scale back any of our dreams. And I'm thrilled to have further proof of that fact.
- Kerri Sparling www.sixuntilme.com

Kerri of www.sixuntilme.com of CT 3:50PM May 27, 2009