[Diabetes-talk] My cure of Type 1 Diabetes!

[cheryl echevarria]

For someone who is a kindey transplant patient as well as Ed Bryant, I want 
to wish you congratulation.  I also want to say that a transplant is just a 
treatment and may not last forever.  We are told as transplant patients, 
that we can lose our organs if we do not take care of ourselves, I was 
evaluated for the same transplant with my kidney transplant back in 05 and 
they couldn't do it because I my blood work showed I was not a typical type 
1 and more of a type 2.

You must stay to your meds, and you must keep your blood sugar in normal 
range.   I am not curent of end stage renal disease, I just had a treatment 
for it and as long as my kidney is health and I take my medications 
hopefully I will never need another one. I have heard people's transplants 
lasting over 25 years if I am not mistaken and Ed Bryant can correct me, he 
is even at the 25 year marker or longer. But they may or may stop working.

Again, I want to congratulate you on this wonderful thing, but at the same 
time, it is not a cure.  You may need another one in the future.  Transplant 
are covered by Medicare and insurance but not this particular one yet.

God Bless.

Cheryl Echevarria

skype: angeldn3


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] My cure of Type 1 Diabetes!


> Congratulations! And good luck!
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> Mike Freeman
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> From: "Sally Maguire" <1.sally at comcast.net>
> To: <Diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:31 AM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] My cure of Type 1 Diabetes!
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> Hi everyone!
> I am so excited to share with youabout my islet cell transplant.  After
> living with Type 1 for 52 yearsI had an islet cell transplaant last
> week.  My blood sugars are now in the normal range although it is
> supposed to take 4 to 6 weeks for the cells to function normally. I
> can't believe it!  The procedure is still considered experimental, so
> there was no charge.  The study is funded by the Juvenile Diabetes
> Foundation.  Am I grateful!!!There are several Universities conducting
> the study right now.  I had mine done at UCSF.  I was in the hospital
> for one week and the actual procedure, implanting the cells through a
> catheter into the liver, only takes about 45 minutes.  I was sick from
> the immune suppressants while I was in the hospital, but feel great now!
> I just knew God would let me experience part of life without diabetes!
> Hurray, hurray, hurray!!!
>
> So, keep healthy everyone and avoid those complications for when there
> is a cure for your kind of diabetes, you want to enjoy it!
>
> Sally Maguire
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