Diabetes Information

Hope you enjoy this one like I did!!!!
Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Such number as may be deemed to perform the stated task in a
timely and efficient manner within the strictures of the following
agreement:
Whereas the party of the first part, also known as “The Lawyer”,
and the party of the second part, also known as “The Light Bulb”,
do hereby and forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of
the second part (Light Bulb) shall be removed from the current
position as a result of failure to perform previously agreed upon
duties, i.e., the lighting, elucidation, and otherwise illumination of
the area ranging from the front (north) door, through the entry way,
terminating at an area just inside the primary living area,
demarcated by the beginning of the carpet, any spillover
illumination being at the option of the party of the second part
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Yoo hoo…it’s so dark in here…anybody around??
*knock knock* anybody home?
…silence…
…and a dejected Marius turns around and walks off into the
sunset…

Anybody awake yet??????
Have a nice day….somewhere else.
Marius Calitz
mariusc@…

Thought some of you would like to read this….
Jan
SUGAR BABY - a poem for diabetes awareness
Not an ordinary child,
you’re special and unique.
My sugar baby.
To others, just another kid,
but to me, a warrior.
Courageous and bold.
You work so hard to maintain
what others take for granted.
Your whole life dictated by diabetes.
Schedules, shots, and finger pokes
you endure without complaint.
Your life support is in a vial.
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Hello from Southern California! Please forgive my lurking about for the
past week or so. I was just introduced to onelist by my neice and signed up
for about four lists … which of course filled my mailbox to the brim.
(I’m trying “digest” format now.)
Anyhow, in addition to being a newbie at onelist, I’m also a relative newbie
in the diabetic category. Well, actually, it’s my daughter who is (T1)
diabetic. She is only 4. She was diagnosed last year right after
Thanksgiving (12/1/98). We had been noticing, for a few weeks or so prior,
that she was very thirsty and was making many trips to the bathroom - every
few hours. That rang so many bells in my head …
I have two children, and both pregnancies were complicated by “gestational
diabetes” (I know - hardly real diabetes at all). My family always talked
about my father’s father having Type 2 and pouring tons of sugar in his
coffee (having a little coffee with his sugar)! But even more than that,
the fact that my parents first child, my brother, died at the age of 4 in
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Ha! That’s a good one, Jan. Kathleen
T1, 29 yrs

Robbers could get away with only a meagre sum of R10million at a
bank robbery in Durban on Friday!!!!!
Have a nice day….somewhere else.
Marius Calitz
mariusc@…

See, SIR, no one cares about us. They’re ALL in hiding. Or, out having FUN!!
fun-ny Jan

HEY, fellow listers,
A L W A Y S recheck my original post from moi when reviewing what this
Pinocchio-type dude replies to!!!!!!!!!!! lol
humm-iliated, again
Jan

There are actually 3 signs — that one, memory loss, and . . .
I forgot the other one.