[Diabetes-talk] Debbie

[Debbie Fredericks]

thanks Joyce it's nice to know someone else has the same troubles with this disease as i so.
 My daughter is a pharmacist and still tells me it's my fault if i have a reaction. I am tired of being
 blamed for things i don't do to myself things i try daily to avoid(high and low blood sugars)

Debbie


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From: Robert Shelton <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sun, April 11, 2010 8:35:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Debbie

It does suck.  It is a cruel disease.  I've been totally blind for almost 50
years, and my wife, sighted, was hit with diabetes about 10 years ago.  I
know that there is no way to compare different conditions between different
individuals, but speaking just for myself, I would much rather deal with the
inconvenience of blindness than with diabetes.  I know, many of you must
contend with both, and my heart goes out to you.  I guess we all just take
what we are dealt in life and do the best we can.  

"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm,
thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to
others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with
bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity."
--Jimmy Carter


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Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 1:59 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Debbie

Debbie

Diabetes does suck big time.  I would love to have a cure come aroun  in my 
life time, but the damage is done to this body and I don't see how a cure  
would help me much.  I would love not to have  to test blood sugars,  take 
insulin, consider what foods I am putting in my mouth and do all that  
calculations to figure out how much insulin I should take at this moment.

Imagine no more AC1 discussions and insulin reactions or peeing with the  
being thirsty stuff.

I think all of us want to support each other, but not all of us can brag  
about how well our diabetes is under control.  A good AC1 is  fantastic for

those who can achieve them all of the time, but we need to be  there to 
listen and help those who struggle on that part.

Insulin reactions are something we all hate and some of us panic and some  
of us just want that feeling to go away as fast as it ccan.  How many of  
you stick stuff in your mouth until you feel better?  You know drink thatO
J 
and then stuff crackers or cookies in your mouth.  How about eating the  
candy [your favorite ones before you got diabetes].  I know you buy those  
little ones that are like 2 or 3 bites, but how many do you shove in your
mouth  
until your senses return.

I love the spouses that help.  They find you unresponsive and then try  to 
get you to drink the juicey juice and then shove the reeses peanut  butter  
cups in your mouth.  After you come back to earth, they have  to tell you 
how combative you were.  Makes you feel like shit,  How  many spouces ask
you, 
"Why didn't you take something before this  happened"?  Like we did it on 
purpose.  If I ate something every time  I felt tired and sat down to rest,
I 
would have a large weight problem,  too.

I have been part of this list when it was first started up.  I listen  to 
everyone.  We need to share our good reports and our frustrations with  this

disease.  We need to not criticise the frustrations, we need to let  this be

a sounding board for both sides.  No one has all the answers, but  we are 
diabetics that live with this disease day and night.  The folks here  have 
gone through the most with their diabetesheart disease, kidney failure and  
transplant, loss of body parts and going blind.  We are the group who been  
there, done that and folks facing this for the first time and seeking  
information needs us to help them get through it.

We all need to be good listeners and tread lightly.  Remember we like  to 
be asked if we need help and what type of help we need, instead of having  
someone walk up to us and grab us to show us how to get where we want to
be.

Joyce 
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