Archive for September 14th, 2006

Survey results

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

A while ago, I posted a survey on terminology. Essentially, do people prefer “diabetic” or “a person with diabetes”. At that time, I promised to post the survey results. Here are those (overdue) survey results:

I havediabetes
I don’thavediabetes
I prefer‘diabetic’
I prefer‘person withdiabetes’
Comments:

 
X
 
X
 

 
X
 
X
 

 
X
 
X
People first and foremost!

X
 
 
X
 

 
 
 
 
None of the above. I have diabetes. […]

September 14: Townsend to Helena, Montana

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

I really wish I could tell you that today was a beautiful fall day in Montana. We had a 15-20 mile per hour wind from the north, temperatures in the low 50’s, and grey skies that seemed to be held up by the mountain ranges to the east and west of us. […]