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Camille: ‘Native elders have a voice’ By Dale Bass STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com
Mikayla Schriener and sister Tlell enjoy a brisk, sunny day in Ottawa. Mikayla, who has Type 1 diabetes, was in the nation’s capital to to lobby MPs for an expansion of a clinical trial network that could make a major difference in the life of diabetic children throughout B.C.
MP gets lesson in day in life of child diabetic By Andrea Klassen STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
Mikayla Schriener’s visit to Ottawa in November included all the usual sights — art galleries, museums, a bakery famous for once having sold U.S. President Barack Obama cookies. But, a portion of the nine year-old’s trip was less typical. Mikayla, who has Type 1 diabetes, was also in the capital to lobby MPs for an expansion of a clinical trial network that could make
a major difference in the life of diabetic children throughout B.C. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) brought 40 kids to Parliament to meet with MPs and share stories of life with the disease. Mikayla, who was diagnosed before her second birthday, describes her life with Type 1 diabetes as “kinda hard, but it’s also easy at the same time.” Her mother, Sara, has a slightly different view of the situation. “I think it’s easy because she doesn’t know
Mikayla Schriener on living with Type 1 diabetes: “Kinda hard, but it’s also easy at the same time.”
any different. But, it’s not that easy,” she says. Making a decision to play soccer during recess at R.L. Clemitson elementary — Mikayla’s favourite break-time activity — means a low blood sugar trade-off.
Visiting the hospital eight times a year is routine. “She checks her blood sugar 10 times a day, sometimes more,” Sara says. “We manage every aspect of her life — all
her physical activity, what she eats, when she goes to bed, how hot it is outside and how that affects the insulin running in her body. “It’s constant.” To explain that to Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo MP Cathy McLeod and KelownaLake Country MP Ron Cannan, Mikayla spent hours creating a scrapbook illustrating a day in her life. X See PRIME MINISTER A11
A tired but still determined Evelyn Camille had her first meal in several days as she ended her fast in her sweat lodge in support of the First Nations Idle No More Movement. “Pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns, sausages, fruit cocktail I made myself — it was good,” the 73-year-old member of the Tk’emlups Indian Band (TIB) said. Camille entered the lodge on her West Shuswap Road property on Wednesday, Jan. 2, vowing to not take in any food or drink for four days in support of a hunger strike by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence in Ottawa. Spence began her protest on Dec. 11 on an island within view of the Parliament Buildings, demanding a meeting with “I haven’t heard from Prime Minister Stephen [Kevin] Krueger and [Terry] Harper to discuss issues Lake. I thought we were affecting First Nations friends. Where are you, my buddies? Not even throughout Canada. a phone call?” Camille, after talking — Evelyn Camille with her spiritual advisor, decided to replicate the protest to support Spence’s cause. The elder said she did not have any food or drink for four days but, due to the concerns of her family, had some broth her daughter-in-law made on Sunday, Dec. 6. In ending her fast, Camille said the most difficult time was Friday, when she became thirsty — “but you just get past it.” During her fast, a representative of KamloopsThompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Cathy McLeod gave her a copy of Bill C-45, federal legislation on which Spence has focused her protest.
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