Diabetes Information

Christine,
With your stress situation lately, I am REQUIRED by law to ask if you are
still nicotine free???
cop Jan

Gail,
That’s a *family* word. I had a step-aunt who pronounced hors d`oeuvres that
way and just wanted to see if anyone was alive in cyberspace today. 8^D
YOU have long to wait? Soda I. I’m making a list of H D’s on my fridge so I
won’t forget what.
Jan

Marius,
Have you ever seen you breath in cold weather?
a-nonny-mous

I just developed an acronym for BASH, since there will be no band, dancing,
nor drinking. Just horses’ doovers (-_-) etc.
B = bawling
A = amazed (that anyone would show up)
S = see e-pals (from 3-4 lists)
H = humor (gotta laugh to keep my sanity)
Jan - who will observe 50 years of DM 11/4/00

FUNNY HOW
Funny how a $100 “looks” so big when you take it to church, but so small
when you take it to the mall.
Funny how long it takes to serve God for an hour, but how quickly a team
plays 60 minutes of basketball.
Funny how long a couple of hours spent at church are, but how short they are
when watching a movie.
Funny how we can’t think of anything to say when we pray, but don’t have
difficulty thinking of things to talk about to a friend.
Funny how we get thrilled when a baseball game goes into extra innings, but
we complain when a sermon is longer than the regular time.
Funny how hard it is to read a chapter in the Bible, but how easy it is to
read 100 pages of a best selling novel.
Funny how people want to get a front seat at any game or concert, but
scramble to get a back seat at church services.
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1. A bus station is where a bus stops, a train station is where a train
stops. Do you understand now why on my desk I have a work station?
2. If quitters never win and winners never quit, what fool came up with
“Quit while you’re ahead”?
3. Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
4. What hair color do they put on the Drivers Licenses of bald men?
5. Should women put the pictures of missing husbands on beer cans?
6. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more
as they get older, then it occured to me — are they cramming for their
finals?
7. Mothers feed their babies with tiny spoon and forks,
I wonder what Chinese mothers use. Toothpicks?
8. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post office? What are we
supposed to do, write to these men? Why don’t they put their pictures on the
postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the
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Hey,
Courtney,
We haven’t heard from you for a looooong time. How ya be??
Jan

Sarah,
dear,
PLEASE update us on how you are doing there in Australia where we are
thinking of you.
Jan

Christine,
I really have never blamed HIM (now, my Mom’s a diff. story - not taking me
to dr. for 8 yrs until 6 days before the coma, etc.) for that comment. For
years prior to that drs. used to taste a patient’s urine to see if it was
sweet to make a dx. Insulin was discovered in 1921 which was a MAJOR
breakthrough for children with diabetes; it meant LIFE. That was probably
the extent of hope. I remember Mom asking if she could give me her pancreas
(she thought it was thumb-size but it’s larger than the stomach). That dr.
said, “We don’t do anything like that.” We’re talking *olden days* but we
didn’t know it was the *olden days.* Many, many, many pancreatic tx’s are
being done now. I’ll be talking to neph about a kptx Monday.
Jan (60 y/o, T-1 11/5/50, pmpg 8/23/83)

My podiatrist - I mean footologist - told about a diabetic man in his office
who couldn’t get his shoes on. When the bottom of his foot was examined,
there was a toy chair embedded in it. The man never felt it!!! Another lady
told me how they couldn’t find rental car keys, had to have a dealer supply
a new one and later that day before site-seeing, her husband changed his
sneakers and the keys fell out of his shoes! He had walked on them all day
and never felt them. I have/had
neuropathy of the feet and legs and the burning was terrible.
Long-term DM can cause this - expecially in the *olden days.* We didn’t
have the products and methods of control *back then.* I took one shot a day
of NPH and Regular for about 32 years, then one year of 2 shots a day. I
have been doing home BG testing just since about ‘81 or ‘82. We’re talking
beginning this lifestyle in 1950. I started out BG testing with strips that
I put
blood on, wiped it off after about a minute, then waited for it to turn a
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