Promise to Remember Me
JDRF has a program called Promise To Remember Me where you meet with your elected representatives and have them “promise” to remember you when they make their votes. We were asked to meet with Senator Tom Harkin on 25 March 2006. We had a very nice meeting. He asked about Amber, how old she was, where she went to school. We gave him our Promise To Remember Me card with our family photo and our story, we gave him a card from Amber, thanking him for his support for research, and we gave him one of our Insulin Is Not a Cure car magnets. We talked about the news from the past week about the research done with making cells from mice act like stem cells. He talked about opening more doors for research, that we only have 2 of 10 doors open, and the $7 billion for the NIH opened a couple more of those doors. We talked a little about how life has changed for us, and how Amber’s been a positive influence on my Kim (my wife) and myself. We watched Amber and Austin as they drew pictures on the whiteboard in the office, and then we took pictures.
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