Blunt About Lifting My Skirt

Posted on August 6, 2009
Filed Under Juvenile Diabetes, omnipod insulin pump | Leave a Comment

JDRF Ozarks met with Congressman Roy Blunt today as part of JDRF’s Promise To Remember Me advocacy campaign.  We had 17 members show up at the Congressman’s office to discuss the issues affecting diabetes patients.

The meeting was somewhat quick, very much to the point, and we are thankful for the time we had to talk with Roy Blunt in Springfield, MO.  We accomplished our goals of asking him to vote for the Special Diabetes Program when it comes back up in congress for renewal and we also had a very in depth discussion about the current healthcare issues.  He seemed very interested in what we had to say, and he also indulged us in taking several pictures outside both before and after our meeting.

In all of the pictures, I am holding my coffee cup (security blanket?) like I am doing some sort of coffee commercial or endorsement.  I also did a really good job of spilling it down the front of myself just before the big meeting.  That wasn’t my only unglamorous, airhead moment that I had during the meeting.  Several of the families were talking about their insulin pumps and one little boy started explaining his Omnipod insulin pump and how it works.  He was all dressed up, so cute, and suddenly didn’t want to show off his Omnipod pump that was on his stomach to the congressman.  His mother, who I know quite well, looked at me as I was sitting right next to the congressman and said, “show him yours.”  Um…yeah…in an overwhelming surge of confidence (perhaps the coffee?), I hiked up my skirt to show off the Omnipod that was placed on my thigh.

Yes, I “bluntly” showed the congressman a little leg.  Nice.  And by nice, I mean embarassingly mortifying.  Luckily, I had met the congressman several times before.  Hopefully he didn’t walk away sarcastically mumbling about what a classy babe I am.

Legshot

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