Is Elliot a Diabetic? Just wanted to know

[bertha]

I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Elliot is a diabetic.

[frank]

I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Elliot is a diabetic.

Why would you ask that? I was just wondering.

[bertha]

My mother and my father are both diabetic, plus I have some relatives and friends who are diabetic. I know for a fact that the first thing diabetes ruins is your teeth because it softens the gums and makes your teeth shift severely. My mother had to have all of her teeth pulled. So did my father. I ended up with the opposite of diabetes-severe hypoglycemia, so my teeth aren't affected, but my body burns starch too fast, which could ruin my pancreas someday. When I hear people making fun of his teeth, and now knowing after looking on the web that he is in fact diabetic, I think that it is incredibly cruel for people to insult him about his teeth if he is diabetic. Trust me, there is nothing he could have done to stop it.

[frank]

My mother and my father are both diabetic, plus I have some relatives and friends who are diabetic. I know for a fact that the first thing diabetes ruins is your teeth because it softens the gums and makes your teeth shift severely. My mother had to have all of her teeth pulled. So did my father. I ended up with the opposite of diabetes-severe hypoglycemia, so my teeth aren't affected, but my body burns starch too fast, which could ruin my pancreas someday. When I hear people making fun of his teeth, and now knowing after looking on the web that he is in fact diabetic, I think that it is incredibly cruel for people to insult him about his teeth if he is diabetic. Trust me, there is nothing he could have done to stop it.

One of the articles on Elliott suggested that his dental problems are due to his diabetes. Good call Bertha

[Watcher]

Considering the number of physical challenges, he's facing, I really don't care whether Elliott Yamin's wins or not, he's already a hero in my books.


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[FalseIdol]

As the unofficial IdolMe curmudgeon allow me to offer my two cents. (Please see the judges for any refund requests) .

I really get tired of people wanting to make heros out of folks just because they handle the ordinary crap that life throws at each and every one of us. Yes, diabetes is a serious disease but usually quite manageable. Unfortunately, I know plenty of diabetics who exasperate their condition by not watching their weight or their intake of alcohol. How do you know Elliott isn't one of them? Twenty-one million people in America suffer from diabetes, it is hardly unique.

But please reserve the term "hero" for those who truly deserve it. Like the young men and women risking their lives in some God-forsaken middle eastern country right now so that you and I can live free. Or the single mom in south central who works all day and goes to school at night while Grandma watches the kids, hoping to break the cycle of poverty and make a better life for her family. Or the beautfiul 16 year old girl in Texas who was horribly disfigured in a ranch fire who spends her time mentoring to other burn victims instead of laying around all day wallowing in self pity.

Those are the REAL HEROS WORTH CELEBRATING, the true angels who walk among us. Not some talent show contestant with bad teeth a nice voice with a mangeable disease.

[Skylarke]

Considering the number of physical challenges, he's facing, I really don't care whether Elliott Yamin's wins or not, he's already a hero in my books.


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As you know people like to imagine that that they live in a perfect world, but they don't. Halle Berry is a diabetic, but you wouldn't know it if she didn't tell the world. So I don't know why people are so hung up on Elliott's looks, and I'm sure he's not explaining his disabilities just to garner votes. Beauty is only skin deep, I can tell from watching idol that Elliott is beautiful within. I didn't even notice his teeth until I read the blogs. The Elliott detractors know he can sing, so they are looking for justification to vote him off idol so that someone like the beautiful Katherine can win.

[laraine]

I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Elliot is a diabetic.


Apparently he is, yes.

[aztecgoods]

As the unofficial IdolMe curmudgeon allow me to offer my two cents. (Please see the judges for any refund requests) .

I really get tired of people wanting to make heros out of folks just because they handle the ordinary crap that life throws at each and every one of us. Yes, diabetes is a serious disease but usually quite manageable. Unfortunately, I know plenty of diabetics who exasperate their condition by not watching their weight or their intake of alcohol. How do you know Elliott isn't one of them? Twenty-one million people in America suffer from diabetes, it is hardly unique.

But please reserve the term "hero" for those who truly deserve it. Like the young men and women risking their lives in some God-forsaken middle eastern country right now so that you and I can live free. Or the single mom in south central who works all day and goes to school at night while Grandma watches the kids, hoping to break the cycle of poverty and make a better life for her family. Or the beautfiul 16 year old girl in Texas who was horribly disfigured in a ranch fire who spends her time mentoring to other burn victims instead of laying around all day wallowing in self pity.

Those are the REAL HEROS WORTH CELEBRATING, the true angels who walk among us. Not some talent show contestant with bad teeth a nice voice with a mangeable disease.

Yeah, also, why do people clap at AA when some jerk stands up and says My name is Jack and I have been off angel dust for 2 weeks now. Yeahhhh!! Clap Clap, like he is a hero or something. Pretty soon, I guess society is going to label me a hero because I get up every morning and drive myself to a real job, then work after hours on other projects. Oh no I forgot, real work isn't politically correct, I guess I would be a hero if I got up and drove myself to the well fare office and stood in those annoying long lines twice a week. Wow the crap we have to put up with in life. I think we are all heroes.

[frank]

Yeah, also, why do people clap at AA when some jerk stands up and says My name is Jack and I have been off angel dust for 2 weeks now. Yeahhhh!! Clap Clap, like he is a hero or something.


I guess I would be a hero if I got up and drove myself to the well fare office and stood in those annoying long lines twice a week.

Wow the crap we have to put up with in life. I think we are all heroes.
Your compassion is overwhelming. You've not only managed to trash those in rehabilitation, you've also laid waste to single parents everywhere who are caught in the web of poverty. Your attitude towards people with health issues is disturbing. Your posts are often, very amusing. But you need to separate serious life issues from a Second rate singing contest. Just because someone, "Puts up with the Crap in Life" doesn't make them a hero. What makes them a Hero is how they keep fighting and don't give up. That's how they turn that "Crap" in their lives into a life changing positive.

[aztecgoods]

Your compassion is overwhelming. You've not only managed to trash those in rehabilitation, you've also laid waste to single parents everywhere who are caught in the web of poverty. Your attitude towards people with health issues is disturbing. Your posts are often, very amusing. But you need to separate serious life issues from a Second rate singing contest. Just because someone, "Puts up with the Crap in Life" doesn't make them a hero. What makes them a Hero is how they keep fighting and don't give up. That's how they turn that "Crap" in their lives into a life changing positive.

hey I was just responding to False's line of thinking, I didn't say anything bad about anybody that is suffering though an illness, I am suffering though an illness called Chrohn's disease, but I don't talk about it and don't seek glory because I have to put up with a disease that 90% of the rest of the population doesn't have or know about. I love everybody and certainly don't like to see people suffer, but as False's line of questening is, suffering is part of life, one way or another, either people are suffering economically, physically, emotionally or whatever, we are ALL probably suffering on some level for something, that is simply part of life. I wish I could cure cancer AIDS, Chrohns and everything else, but thats life, we are here to suffer. We should all get used to it. If you are not suffering because of one thing or another you are a very small minority on this planet.

[RushDog]

Yeah, also, why do people clap at AA when some jerk stands up and says My name is Jack and I have been off angel dust for 2 weeks now. Yeahhhh!! Clap Clap, like he is a hero or something. Pretty soon, I guess society is going to label me a hero because I get up every morning and drive myself to a real job, then work after hours on other projects. Oh no I forgot, real work isn't politically correct, I guess I would be a hero if I got up and drove myself to the well fare office and stood in those annoying long lines twice a week. Wow the crap we have to put up with in life. I think we are all heroes.

Look, anybody can get a job, but it takes a real man to make it without working. Seriously, I know what you're talking about. Especially here Central Arkansas where the work ethic isn't exactly top notch and most of young people are hooked on either crack or crystal meth.

[FalseIdol]

Look, I am the first person to applaud anyone who takes the time to improve themselves, especially when they have to overcome long odds.

But I understand where Aztec is coming from on the 12 step thing. While it is wonderful when a crack addict takes steps to clean up his life and stops doing God-knows-whatever they were doing to feed their habit; after two weeks they are hardly ready for the Lifetime Achievement award. Yet those of us who don't applaud hard enough get accused of being unsympathetic. Maybe it is just good old fashioned cynicism that staying sober for two weeks isn't much of an accomplishment particulary when most people can stay off booze and drugs their entire lives.

My real point is we are way too quick in this society to make role models out of the wrong people. A mediocre singer with Wolfman-esque looks is hardly my nominee for the Albert Schweitzer award simply because he survived some silly audition process.

[aztecgoods]

Look, I am the first person to applaud anyone who takes the time to improve themselves, especially when they have to overcome long odds.

But I understand where Aztec is coming from on the 12 step thing. While it is wonderful when a crack addict takes steps to clean up his life and stops doing God-knows-whatever they were doing to feed their habit; after two weeks they are hardly ready for the Lifetime Achievement award. Yet those of us who don't applaud hard enough get accused of being unsympathetic. Maybe it is just good old fashioned cynicism that staying sober for two weeks isn't much of an accomplishment particulary when most people can stay off booze and drugs their entire lives.

My real point is we are way too quick in this society to make role models out of the wrong people. A mediocre singer with Wolfman-esque looks is hardly my nominee for the Albert Schweitzer award simply because he survived some silly audition process.


I guess when the "Comic Insult Dog" tells you you are being in-sensitive, in so many words, it must really mean your @#$% up. Sorry, I'm working on it. My therapist tells me that next month we may be able to get rid of the straight jacket and discontinue the shock therapy treatments.