[Diabetes-talk] question

Sat Feb 21 19:43:05 UTC 2009

Paul if you have questions pertaining to your insurance please post it, I am 
sure that everyone would love to hear how it is done, I can help or I can 
help off line.  Again, I am a Medical Insurance Specialist,

All I need to know if which one you have.

Cheryl Echevarria

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] question

> Paul:
>
> What an outrage! I realize that my words may seem injudicious to legal
> eagles but I am moved to wonder how that CDE can claim that credential
> and sleep with a clean conscience at night having treated you so
> cavalierly. Your CDE should have arranged for you to work with a
> dietitian specializing in meal planning for diabetics so that said
> dietitian and you together could work out a meal plan that you both
> could live with and that would assist in your diabetes care.
>
> In a word, Type 2 diabetes (which I presume you have) is a disorder
> wherein your body either makes insufficient insulin or does not use well
> the insulin that *is* made in order to get glucose (a simple sugar) from
> the blood into your body's cells so that they can have energy to do
> their thing. Ultimately, it's more complex than this but that's the
> essence. The nutrition category that raises one's blood glucose the most
> in general is that of carbohydrates so that one must balance how much,
> when and what one eats with how much energy one expends (as in exercise)
> and how much, if any, medication one takes to keep one's blood glucose
> at a near-normal level or as close to is as your doctor thinks you can
> handle. You therefore need an eating plan.
>
> If you click on http://www.eatright.org you can find a dietitian in your
> area, hopefully one who specializes in dealing with diabetic
> meal-planning. If you go to my home page, that is,
> http://www.panix.com/~k7uij. you'll find links to a number of very
> useful resources that will tell you everything you could ever want or
> need to know about diabetes and then some.
>
> One of the links is to Gary Scheiner's site, Integrated Diabetes
> Services, that actually can consult with you on all aspects of diabetes
> care including, I suspect, meal-planning, either on-line or over the
> telephone, for a fee, of course.
>
> Which brings me to my next question: what, if any, health insurance do
> you have? I know that mine, Regence BlueCross, has advocate nurses who
> would assist me in gaining any help I needed if I asked them. Most
> mainline health insurance providers have something of the sort.
>
> I can't believe your CDE seems as paralyzed re blindness as you make her
> (I presume it's a her) out to be! Although medical privacy probably
> precludes me talking about your specific case with the CDE, perhaps I
> can intervene to offer the resources of NFB and the Diabetes Action
> Network to enlighten her a bit on blindness. Also (although I can't
> guarantee this), we may have a DAN member in your area who can help you
> with a bit of local advocacy.
>
> If you write me privately at my email address,
>
> k7uij at panix.com
>
> with your telephone number, I'd be glad to call you and talk with you at
> length about diabetes, diabetes care, the universe and everything.
>
> Ed Bryant is also a fount of information.
>
> You have a right to expect the same level of diabetes care as would
> anyone else who is sighted. In fact, it's vital; diabetes is one of
> those diseases that is controllable and said control is largely in the
> hands of the patient. But not controlling diabetes can lead to some
> rather unpleasant consequences in the long run.
>
> If you are a subscriber to the NLS talking book program, may I recommend
> Gretchen Becker's book: "The First Year; Type Two Diabetes: A Guide for
> the Newly-diagnosed". If you are a subscriber to the digital talking
> book download pilot, you can download it along with a plethora of other
> good books on diabetes including the guides of the Joslin Diabetes
> Center and the American Diabetes Association (these are available on
> cassette, too, I should imagine, but I grabbed them from the digital
> download site).
>
> Rest assured that you're not alone; what you're going through happened
> to all of us at one point except that you're getting the "helpless blind
> person" syndrome thrown in. We'll work through this together if you wish
> and assist you to advocate for yourself and to get the good diabetes
> care and advice you need. With it, you can live a normal, healthy life
> and, under almost all circumstances, diabetes, like blindness, can be
> reduced to the level of an infernal nuisance!
>
> We're with you.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Mike Freeman, President
> Diabetes Action Network
> National Federation of the Blind
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul & Paula Jordan" <paujor at fuse.net>
> To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:09 AM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] question
>
>
> As I mentioned in my intro to the group a few days ago, I've been
> diagnosed
> as diabetic for almost 3 months, and have had meter issues,
>
> Which I think are being fixed today.  My next issue has to do with
> whether
> or not I should have a food plan.  I have met for 4 times with a cde,
> but
> she hasn't said anything about this.
>
> When I was first diagnosed, I began to read everything I could get my
> hands
> on, and, now I feel almost like a "duck out of water."
>
> The view seems to be that all blind people have sighted caregivers, and,
> I
> don't have any idea where this comes from.  When I tell them that I
> don't
> have sighted help,
>
> They throw up their hands in astonishment, and quickly fade away not
> knowing
> what to do.
>
> Is the lack of a food plan a real concern, and if so, are there places
> to
> contact for this type of help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
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