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In today's Appleton Post Crescent.

"Needle delivery sent an important message"

Kudos to Ms. Kastner for trying to make State Sen.[sic] John Gard aware of what diabetic life is a little like everyday. And shame on Gard for calling the police.

Ms. Kastner's stunt was juvenile and petty. It did absolutely NOTHING to advance her cause or to encourage debate. When attention turns from the message to the messenger or the delivery, the primary objective of communication is not fulfilled.

Also, Ms. Krueger, John Gard is the speaker of the Assembly he is NOT a state senator. I guess this explains much.

This is a woman who is trying to make her daughter's life better.

Oh please. How is her petty stunt going to make it better? I can see it making things worse, again see my above point about communication.

Unless you have diabetes and someone close to you has it, these people in government have no idea what it is like to watch a loved one take their insulin shots and to test their blood four times a day.

To know a bout of flu could kill them, or a cut on the foot could cost them that foot, or to watch them lose their sight. Or, to live in pain from peripheral neuropathy.

John Gard, I invite you to spend one day in my life to see what this disease has done to my body and then call the police on a woman who wants something better for her daughter.


Toni R. Krueger,


Menasha

Mr. Krueger, after you give yourself an insulin injection what do you do with the needle? Do you casually toss it in your regular trash? Why not? I bet that syringe goes into a special container and is handled by a special set of procedures designed to safeguard those who handle that trash. Why is that?

Congratulations Toni R. Krueger of Menasha! You are today's recipient of the Eight Ball Award!

Ms. Krueger's Eight Ball Award!