Everybody (they say) gets their 15 minutes of fame, and I have a few extended seconds that will be running across Canada today!

As a volunteer for the Canadian Diabetes Association (http://www.diabetes.ca/ ) for the past year or so, I’ve found myself occasionally fielding a few different press requests for interviews. You could almost say that I’m Calgary’s “official diabetic”.

Yesterday, I was interviewed by CBC NewsWorld (our national public broadcaster), for an interview that is supposed to run right across our fair country. My first brush with national exposure, and not to Arctic wind chills!

Of course, I am but a mere footnote to the real story they are covering – the invention of a new patch that will test blood glucose levels, and transmit those readings wirelessly to a meter or computer – a huge breakthrough for anyone familiar with the testing procedures currently accepted as the only accurate measure of those levels. I’ll give you a hint – one of the words is “lance”.

YIKES!!

At any rate, if you’re in Canada, I understand the piece will run during the 4:30 PM (Mountain) broadcast. So, check your own CBC NewsWorld listings, and see if you can catch the husky balding dude sweating under the lights of a national TV camera. Watch as my voice rises in pitch, a telltale sign my nerves have gotten the best of me.

It ain’t no Susan Boyle on the You-Toob, but it could be fun to watch me pretend to know what I’m talking about…

http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/daily/today/cbc_newsworld/

Chow for now!!