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It's hard to imagine actor Victor Garber, who plays nerves-of-steel spymaster Jack Bristow on TV's popular ALIAS, getting choked up over the diea of being able to spread jam on toast.
For Garber, 54, who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 12, the mere thought was a luxury he couldn't consider.
So when he saw a fellow Type 1 diabetic do just that in a TV news report on the Edmonton protocol-an innovative, but still experimental proceducre that appears to free juvenile diabetics from insulin dependence-he was blown away.
"A diabetic who'd been insulin dependent for something like 30 years was shown getting up in the morning and putting jam on a piece of toast. It was the first day he did not have to check his blood sugar or take insulin. And I literally burst into tears, thinking: 'Oh my God'," Garber said recently.
"I don't even allow myself to think what that would feel like."
Garber's reaction had nothing to do with fruit spreads. It had to do with the idea that people like him could be cured of a disease he calls "A tyranny".
"Here's the thing: I'm not looking to slather jam on my bread. But to have the option would be really nice. And to not have to worry when I go to bed at night 'Am I going to wake up in the middle of the night?' " he says, referring to the fact that he needs to check his blood sugar during the night.