Diabetes Information

MOTHERS SAID:
PAUL REVERE’S MOTHER: “I don’t care where you think you have to go,
young man. Midnight is past your curfew!”
MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY’S MOTHER: “I don’t mind you having a
garden, Mary, but does it have to be growing under your bed?”
MONA LISA’S MOTHER: “After all that money your father and I spent on
braces, Mona, that’s the biggest smile you can give us?”
HUMPTY DUMPTY’S MOTHER: “Humpty, If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you
a hundred times not to sit on that wall. But would you listen to me?
Noooo!”
COLUMBUS’ MOTHER: “I don’t care what you’ve discovered, Christopher.
You still could have written!”
BABE RUTH’S MOTHER: “Babe, how many times have I told you — quit
playing ball in the house! That’s the third broken window this week!”
MICHELANGELO’S MOTHER: “Mike, can’t you paint on walls like other
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MAINE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY:
1. Log on - Make the wood stove hotter
2. Log off - Don’t add no more wood
3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove
4. Download - Getting the firewood off the truck
5. Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
6. Ram - The thing that splits the firewood
7. Hard Drive - Getting home in the winter
8. Prompt - What the mail ain’t in the winter
9. Window - What to shut when it’s cold outside
10. Screen - What to shut in black fly season
11. Byte - What the black flies do
12. Bit - What the black flies did
13. Mega Byte - What the BIG black flies do during trout season
14. Chip - Munchies for TV
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The following article may be of interest to members of this list:
DIABETICS WARNED TO AVOID CHINESE HERBS
Imported pills include prescription drugs
By Neil Sherman
HealthSCOUT Reporter
MONDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthSCOUT) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning
diabetics to stop taking five types of Chinese herbal products because they
contain two prescription drugs that can be dangerous if a doctor isn’t
monitoring a patient.
One of the two drugs was taken off the market 23 years ago because it caused
a potentially deadly buildup of lactic acid in the bloodstream.
The imported supplements, which claim to return blood sugar levels to
normal, are being sold under the brand names: Diabetes Hypoglucose Capsules;
Pearl Hypoglycemic Capsules; Tongyi Tan Diabetes Angel Pearl Hypoglycemic
Capsules; Tongyi Tang Diabetes Angel Hypoglycemic Capsules; and Zhen Qi
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Sixteen Steps to Build a Campfire

This poem … Shore makes you wander!
A 5th grade school teacher said some time ago that kids did not
really need to know how to spell because they will all have computers that
will do it for them……..the following is an excellent example!
SUBJECT: Owed to a Spell Chequer (It works!)
Owed to a South Carolina Spell Chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marcs four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin Knot Sea.
Eye strikes a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
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Well, Gang,
I H O P E my server problems are past tense now!!!!!
Thanks to the archives, I have been able to pretty much keep up with my list
groups. When posts didn’t make sense, I went to the archives and caught up.
We had 80*F here Wednesday, 36*F on Thursday! bummer!! That is a major
reason I HATE mail order (mailbox delivery) Rx’s.
Iris, I was thinking about my joint pains and then it hit me that with you
being a female and just drinking milk and eating cheese is not sufficient
enough calcium; if you can, find a sale and have the cats on a 2-day diet
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take 4-6 a day, with meals. You may see a BIG difference in your pain in
about THREE days-to-a week. I read something recently that a female needs
citrate calcium and it is necessary to have some magnesium in it. Also
vitamin D, but if you find some that doesn’t have D, your milk would
probably sufficient for that - dunno. I bought Osco brand - don’t know if
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A friend came by this evening and showed me how to scan and send our pic. I
hope it goes through. This was taken the day Glory and I were certified.
Gail

Iris, Is there a support group for people who have your disease? I
think it would be good for you to go to a local one where you can have a
physical support group. I listen to you and my heart goes out to you
because of your emotional pain. It is not easy to deal with more than
one problem at a time. I have been there and I needed professional
help. I could not deal with all the stuff on my plate. It took a year
of help for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So many of us
find ourselves in that tunnel with no light. It is not easy to face
diabetes let alone add new problems. Financial ones are hard because
that in immediate….I have been there and almost lost it all. It is
hard to go from a 2 family income down to one for three years and have
all the bills and 2 kids to help. I thought I should just end it and
they could have my insurance money since I was the problem. Bad
thinking!!!!!!!
Then with the loss of my sight I thought that it was the end of the
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Gail….It is good to be back…I had a good trip. It was so cold but it
was fun to be with my oldest daughter and the family. My daughter had
not seen her relatives in years and it was good for them to see her as
an adult. She had such a good time with them. We really had fun in
Phoenix. We really were in Mesa but it is close to a lot of good things.
We ate at some really neat places…Mining Camp is a neat place with
woooden benches, picnic tables, metal dishes, mining decor, in front of
Superstition Mountain. The food was served family style until you
burst…prime rib, chicken, bbq pork ribs, baked beans, potatoes,
dressing, green beans, 2 kinds of bread, cole slaw, cookies, coffee and
tea. It was fantastic and a guy sang songs while we ate. We had to be
rolled out of the resturant. During the day we went to the mining camp
which was set up the way it was in the early 1900’s. My husband and
daughter went down in the mine and then came up and panned for gold and
garnets. It was great fun. They had lots of skits going on playing with
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Gail,
Every year after my annual pap, the doctor always says that “no news is good
news.” They only call if there is a problem. Well, my most recent pap came
back
with abnormal cells. The colposcopy is where he uses a scope to take a closer
look at the cervix. He can use a solution to make any abnormal cells show up
better under the scope. The ECC is an endo cervical curettage. I’m not *sure*
but, I think that is a biopsy. I’m just hoping that the abnormal pap was just a
false positive. Every year I just dread going to the gynecologist. To me it is
the most uncomfortable thing in the world. I do it because I know how important
it is. The tests next Wednesday will be like a pap, just more intense. I
haven’t been really worried about it, just concerned. I’m more keyed up about
the
procedure than the results. Thanks for your concern.
Connie