Lisa,
Now that you say it that way, dunno. They were joking that many drs. will
blame whatever is wrong with a DMer it’s due of the DM. I got my first grey
hair at 12. I had the blackest hair in the school and a bus driver called my
Blackhead. I started *rinsing* my hair at 18. BUT an uncles turned white at
22 when he was in WWII.
Jan
Hi, Anne,
Would you explain the above sentence you wrote? I’ve been using Humalog for
over 3 years in my pump and wouldn’t give it up. Just curious as to how it
affected you.
Jan
(60 y/o, T-1 11/5/50, pmpg 8/23/83)
Lisa, I had to send this post to my friends in the cold northland, that
is one of the reasons that we moved to Florida. When we were younger and
in college and it was snowing out I would challenge my husband to a game
of inside pingpong. If I won and it was snowing he would stay home if he
won he had the option of doing what he thought was right. We lived at a
top of the hill and so many times we would go out together and clean our
two car driveway and then go in to clean up to have the snowplow come and
fill it in. I HATE snow. I am so glad to be in the warmer country even
if today it is reallllllllly cold…Wind chill and cold weather puts it
in the 40’s. I can not take it. Well, must go to work. See ya all
later. Becki
marius,
So your company is planning to sell steel cheapto the good old USA.
If this would happen it might not be good for anyone. The economics in
both countries could have problems. I know when I lived in northern
Minnesota and they were doing a lot of strip mining and not looking into
the future and the devastation that it was creating in the land the
people were making LOTS of money and life was good for them. Then the
country got wise and said that they could not hurt the environment and
had to figure out a good way to protect the land, water, and air from the
polution and re build the land with trees etc. the companies started to
fail. Jobs were lost, proverty would not sell, people were not prepared
for the loss. I had good friends in the business who lost their homes,
insurances, jobs, and self esteem. It was terrible. Industries look out
only for the big picture and not the little guy who really suffers if
they do something crazy. (gee, where did this all come from). ‘Any way
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Hi Gang, I was just informed by Jan that I should re introduce myself to
some of the new members. I guess I have been in this group for almost a
year. I have been diagnosed as a diabetic since Oct. 16th, 1996. I
almost died from blood poisioning and almost lost my foot that month then
was told that I was a diabetic who was going blind. What a month….a
year later I was blind for 3 months and after the seventh operation they
were able to give me back a little sight. I am legally blind….blind in
the left eye and tunnel vision with cataract in the right. I lost my job
went into depression and came out of it fighting and now working for the
Boys and Girls club as the art and educational specialist. My life has
changed a lot and I am trying had to not let the diabetes run my life but
me have control of the disease. My sugars are not always wonderful but
try hard. I take insulin twice a day, also an ace inhibator for my heart
and kidneys. I basically a healthy person. I count carbos and try to
follow some schedule but want to be classified as a first class person
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sugar free gelatin tee hee….can’t hurt is you give it a try and the
fingernails get stronger and healthier.
[diabetics] treated like kidsFrom: “Babs” <babette@…
You know just a thought here….
But why not start an Online Diabetics Accountability Community ..
or something like that… unless the real point of going to these meetings
is to see real people…
but you could sign up for a free chat channel and have regular weekly
meetings online…
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I’ve been on 3 Chats since starting on the ‘net. One from a list of 2000
members — extremely boring. About 6 were on and didn’t respond; just sat
there waiting. Another was fun, but went defunct a few months ago because of
not much interest. The best one is for a kidney/pancreas tx group. They meet
at a reg. time and day. Usually 4-8 at a time with possibly a total of 20 by
the end; it lasts for hours, people dropping in and out until the last ones
say goodnight. I think it would be nice for this group, however, I know
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I saw a post from Marius earlier today. Is he still around? Did anyone hear from
him??
curious Jan
Christine,
It’s not a *dump* thing. Our pastor is 60 tomorrow and they had cake and ice
cream after church last night. I took a sandwich with me to eat with the
goodies so it wouldn’t be just simple carbs. I *guessed* at bolusing enough
insulin to cover what I was eating. I was 111 before I went to bed. GREAT.
At 5:30 I woke up to visit *Jon* and took a BG: 72. Fine. Took my 3
empty-stomach pills and went back to sleep. About 8:45 I knew I crashed.
Hard. I had some *Orange Slice* candies in the headboard that were so old
they were in the crunchy stage. I usually get up to get something because my
brain doesn’t recall (Hillary Syndrome) the candy is there.
This time I remembered. I knew I couldn’t get up yet — probably would have
fallen anyway. Then I remembered I could put my pump on hold for a half
hour — by this time I had my *aura* (yellow spot in vision due to low) and
couldn’t see the pump screen. I was pushing the buttons and not knowing what
I was doing, thought I did it right. I laid there and realized I was hearing
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Becki
Our local support group (defunct now) was all information. We were not
allowed to talk about feelings, depression (advisor didn’t think that was
wise), complications, etc. When I was president I wanted it changed to St.
Joe Co. Diabetes Education and Support Group. Noooooo. The attendance
tripled after I became pres. and I was hollered at for my methods.
I like the e-mail group(s) too.
Becki, You were busy over the holidays and I think you missed it, but we
have some new ones and they wanted you to introduce yourself. They don’t
know much about you yet.
Bethany, I went to you Kitty website (cute). TWO Q’s: Do you belong to
CatDiary? And, where’s YOUR pic?? Marius, Christine, Iris, Scott Simkover,
and I have all put our pics on this list so we can see to whom we’re
talking. Want to send one?
Just Jan