Shelia, I am not an authority on this, but I think the honeymoon period is
the first year or so after dx of diab. During this time things go smoothly
because your pancreas is still producing some insulin on demand. At times
symptom of diab. seem to disappear. But unfortunately they come back and
even stronger because the pancreas finally shuts down for good. This can be
in weeks, months or years.
Gail
On another list I’m on, if you’ve had DM for more than 25 years, they will
put you on the 24,900 list (about 3 shots per day). I’m on it and have had
DM longer than many others. There are several on the list with well over 40
years. BUT, for 30 years I had ONE shot a day, then 2 the following 3 years.
That doesn’t equal 24,900. I don’t know how they really figured our needs
for any kind of regulation. When I was pg in ‘60-’62 they added DBI to
assist in lowering BG so more insulin would not harm the babies. Now I’m
reading on a pumpers list that the women are tripling their insulin
requirements in the last trimester. With all the a.m. sickness pills I took
(8 mos.) I’m so thankful I wasn’t given Thalidomide. One of my dau’s
classmates was a victim of it. Pretty little girl with stubby fingers on
short arms. SAD!
Jan (60 y/o, T-1 11/5/50, pmpg 8/23/83)
Babs,
Were you short on funds when you named Es and could only afford 2 letters??
a.u.
ALL the above (shortened version) sort of explains our *looniness.* Having a
sense of humor (SOH) is NOT necessary to be on this list, but you’ll lose
out if you don’t. 
We go wayyyyy off topic (OT) many times. We stay on
topic often. We laugh, laugh, laugh, learn, and yes, cry often together.
Personally, I would rather laugh because it’s too easy to cry at the type of
an @.
Welcome Yvette!
I can just say that Jan’s welcome says it all. This is the best list around
(Of any type).
I am Christine. Type II, diagnosed 8/13/99. I live in the supposedly warmer
part of the country. FLORIDA, that is. But for the past few weeks it has been
downright cold!
Once again, welcome,
Christine
You’re an illusion?
M,
What do you mean. Because I am so beautiful (and you haven’t seen my pic
yet, doubt you ever will unless I can get some help in here). Or am I an
illusion because of the poetic way I talk or do you just not know how to
spell Illinois?
GD
I was recently asking Kelly some questions about diabetes for a support
group project we’re working on. It was very interesting, and is strongly
indicative of how feelings about diabetes can be effected by the age of
dx. Kelly is 6, and was dx’d at 3. I don’t think an older child would have
similar answers. Her answers were as follows
What is the best thing about having diabetes?
“I get to have snacks and treats when other kids don’t. I get to go to
special parties and events with
the JDF.”
What is the worst thing about having diabetes?
“Having to go to the doctor.”
How does diabetes make you feel?
“Special and happy.”
Doesn’t it ever make you feel bad?
“Only when I have to miss school to go to the doctor”
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Daily Encounter
Xvxn though this typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works vxry wxll, xxcxpt for
onx kxy. You’d think that with all thx othhxr kxys working, onx kxy would
hardly bx noticxd. But just onx kxy out of whack sxxms to ruin thx wholx
xffort.
Havx you xvxr said to yoursxlf, “I’m only onx pxrson. No onx will noticx if
I don’t do my bxst.”
But it doxs makx a diffxrxncx, bxcausx to bx xffxctivx, a family, an
organization, a church or a businxss nxxds complxtx participation by
evxryonx to thx bxst of his or hxr ability.
So if you’rx having onx of thosx days whxn you think you just arxn’t vxry
important, and you’rx txmptxd to slack off, rxmxmbxr this old
typxwritxr. You arx a kxy pxrson, and whxn you don’t do your bxst, nothing
xlsx around you works out thx way it’s supposxd to.
“Suggested prayer: “Dear God, thank you that I am very important to you and
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feb. 3, 2000 A technique that allows insulin hormone to be stored in cells
and then released as needed by a pill eventually may offer a treatment for
diabetes that does not require daily injections, researchers say.
THE EXPERIMENTS, thus far, have been performed only on mice, but researchers
say a system using an implanted insulin gene may be ready for human testing
within two years.
In a study to be published Friday in the journal Science, researchers at
Ariad Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass., and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer
Center in New York said the cell engineering technique was able to control
diabetes in a group of laboratory mice and is now being tested on larger
animals.
Tim Clackson, senior author of the study, said that the technique causes
insulin, or some other protein, to clump inside a cell with another protein,
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[diabetics] SITREP
With emPHAsisis on the *noisi-an*? ESP = Extra Special pals? Two great
minds run in the same channels; 2 great hands meet (I am clasping my own 2
hands - makes it tuff to type)
Jan