[Diabetes-talk] Inhaled Insulin?

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Hi All,
has anyone on here ever done any research studies or used  inhaled insulin?
i live near Washington universtity in St. Louis Mo and they are payinng 
$1000 for a 25 week study on inhaled insulin in type 1 diabetics.
i wanted to know if anyonr on here has ever used inhaled insulin does it 
work?
please let me know.
if u are in the area and want to be included in the study let me know that 
as well
Debbie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Bryant" <ebryant at socket.net>
To: "Diabetes Talk" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:11 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] A Daughter's Story


> Hi Folks,
>    You may know we are working on past Voice editions which are not yet on 
> our website.  The following article is from Vol. 9 no. 4, Fall 1994.
>    I wonder how many of us can relate to this story?
>
> Regards,
> Ed Bryant
>
> A daughter's story
>
>
>
> Many people have known the agony of watching a family member waste away 
> from an incurable disease such as cancer.  Many times all even the doctors 
> can do is try to make the sufferer comfortable. Everyone tries to help. 
> The family draws together in this time of pain. 
> What happens when it is one of your own stricken, and you are blind?  When 
> your own family hasn't learned that blindness is not synonymous with 
> inability?  We know education is critical, and stories like the following 
> remind us why.                                      Olivia Ostergaard, 
> Treasurer of the National Federation of the Blind of California Diabetics 
> Chapter, lived through such a situation.  Although she had been living 
> independently for years, her own family, believing that "a blind person 
> couldn't handle it anyway," would not allow her to help care for her 
> diabetic mother, whose cancer had become terminal. 
> There is no good reason to bar any capable person from caring for a 
> stricken loved one.  In a time of such agony, the expression of ancient 
> prejudices about the blind compounds the pain.   "Imagine not being 
> allowed to cook a simple soup, because someone was afraid you'd burn it! 
> Imagine total strangers invading your territory, when you should be able 
> to take charge of the situation..." says Ostergaard. 
> When Olivia's younger (sighted) brother was given power of attorney over 
> their mother's affairs, Olivia felt left out and abandoned.  As she 
> states:                         "When we went with mother to the doctor, 
> my brother asked if she was terminal.  The doctor denied it, and ordered 
> more tests.  I privately protested, because my brother w!
> asn't se
> eing what I was seeing.  He was still living in his fantasy that our 
> mother was going to be all right.  I knew better.  I knew just by the way 
> she was acting.  Her thinking wasn't clear, sometimes.  My brother 
> wouldn't listen to me.  I was his blind sister, "who didn't know 
> anything". 
> Four months later Olivia and her brother lost their mother to terminal 
> cancer.  Their agony needs no reinforcement here--but a simple point needs 
> making:  Blind folks can handle adversity!  In such a situation, the 
> burden can be eased by allowing ALL family members to carry their share of 
> it.   Knowledge is power.
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