Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics will have an array of information available to them on April 10 at the Diabetes Education Night at the Legacy Centre.
“We are sitting at around 18 presentation tables,” says Brent Smithson, organizer with the Lloydminster Lions.
Smithson, who co-chairs the Diabetes committee benefitted from a treatment led by Dr. James Shapiro in Edmonton. As a diabetic he has gone from taking over 45 units of insulin a day to just 12 and not having to worry about his schedule and taking the lifesaving dose.
The group that fundraisers for the research is called Drifcan and they will have a representative at the information session to share about advances in Diabetes research.
“Dr. James Shapiro is famous worldwide for the procedure called the Edmonton Protocol.”
The procedure involves having harvested islet cells from a donor injected into the recipient’s liver.
“They recover the islet cells from the pancreas of the donor, and then they give people that are really struggling with their diabetes,” says Smithson.
The Lloydminster Lions and the SHA are hosting the session which features a pharmacist presenting on Diabetes medication, and information tables set up by insulin pump and glucose monitoring representatives.
Smithson says the session is a really good night for people to attend and find out who can offer help with diabetes.
The event runs from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
