Diabetes is a disease where your body either does not produce insulin, or your body doesn't know how to use the insulin it does produce so it doesn't make use of the carbohydrates or "sugars" in your blood. Without insulin, the sugar in your blood or "blood sugar" does not get converted into energy and over time, that will damaged all of the tissue in your body including your kidneys, eyes and your heart.
There are three main types of diabetes.
The most common type of diabetes is Type 2 or adult onset diabetes. This type of diabetes can be pretty sneaky because you can go a long time with the disease before you even know you have it. You may feel thirsty and tired all the time. Your vision may have changed a little bit. Your feet and hands may tingle, but it's not enough to get it checked. Many times, the diagnosis comes after much damage has already been done to one's kidney's or eyes. And more than 6.2 million people are walking around undiagnosed.
The less common form of diabetes is Type 1 or juvenile diabetes. It's not always easy to figure out why Type 1 hits. Some say it can be triggered by a virus, others say it's impossible to tell, but it usually hits children or very young adults. Many times the diagnosis comes as these children are rushed to the hospital, close to or in a coma. It's a horrible experience for both the children and the parents and it's much harder to control as it doesn't always react favorably to dietary changes and usually requires insulin shots or pumps.
Gestational diabetes, or pregnancy related diabetes usually shows up in a women who are pregnant but many times will go away after the baby is born. These women have to be exceptionally careful as their life and the life of their baby are both at stake. Many times, these women are later hit with Type 2 diabetes.
The bottom line is that a diabetic is "too sweet." All of that high blood sugar is the main problem.
Diabetics test their blood sugar many times a day and try to keep it in a normal range through medicine, shots, food and exercise. But it's hard. It's really hard.
"How Sweet it is!" is a stamp set created to raise money for diabetes research. Since diabetics are "so sweet", all the stamps in this set are also sweet, just like those who suffer.
$7.00 of every stamp set will be divided equally between the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, two organizations that are working on research to find better ways to treat diabetes and hopefully will some day find a cure.
This set is available in two styles. You can purchase either wood mounted or unmounted on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks.
The wood mounted stamps come as a sheet of rubber with sticky cushion, a set of wood blocks and a sticker sheet for you to use to index the wood blocks. You will need to trim the stamps, mount them on the blocks and put the stickers on the blocks. They come in a convenient plastic storage box.
There is also a sticker to cut out and stick on the side of the box for indexing purposes.
The unmounted stamps come as a sheet of rubber, mounted on cling cushion, ready to be trimmed and used with acrylic blocks. They also come in a convenient storage box with a picture of the set in an insert inside the box for easy viewing.
These stamps are available now in the Gina K. Designs online store and in the Gina K. Designs retail store in McFarland, Wisconsin.
To see more or to purchase these stamps online, click here- STAMPS FOR DIABETES and use the options button to choose wood blocks or cling cushion.
Purchase your set of "How Sweet it is!" today.
How sweet it is to help make a difference to those who suffer with diabetes.
Hugs,
Gina K.
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