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Diabetes Spectrum 16:224-226, 2003
© American Diabetes Association ®, Inc., 2003

Special Report

The Gifts of Giving

Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the address of the American Diabetes Association President, Health Care and Education, given in June 2003 at the 63rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, La.

I have been asked many times over the past 12 months what I am going to do when my year in this role has ended. And because I’ve been far too busy to think much past the next 24 hours, my standard answer has been, "I’m going to get a life."

So, as this amazing year has drawn to a close, I’ve spent some time anticipating "getting a life" and what it will be. And I’ve realized that it will in fact be very different than I could have imagined a year ago. Because you have given me many gifts this year, and those gifts have changed my life.

Heart

Like the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz," one gift I have been given through my ADA experience this past year is heart. In my years as an educator, I have learned that diabetes education happens in the heart—not the head. This year, I have learned that the same is true of our work within the ADA.

Outgoing ADA President Francine R. Kaufman, MD, and I had the opportunity to travel to India this year to be part of a conference held in Chenai. As we greeted our American colleagues there, we all compared notes about things we had experienced since our arrival that had felt different from home, and we discussed how long our . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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