[Diabetes-talk] New Member.

[Michael Park]

Hi Dotty.

Michael here from Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

I have been a diabetic for the last 12 years, and although I am blind, I 
rather jokingly told a diabetologist that I saw the other day, that it 
was not his to claim the credit or discredit for my blindness since I 
have been blind from birth, long before I was diagnosed with type II 
diabetes.

Here in South Africa in general, we too, have an institutionalised 
ignorance concerning diabetes, and in my experience as a diabetes 
counsellor, people simply do not want to hear the truth.

Oddly enough, one picks up the best diabetes management remedies outside 
the diabetic clinic and preferably from people with blood sugar counts 
in excess of 360, to use the terms in the USA. To get the numbers we use 
here, you would have to divide the US readings by 18 and so 360 would 
convert to 20in our terms. Of course, I am just facecious about the good 
diabetic remedies (grin).

I think that it is common cause on this list that regular testing is 
imperative, especially since there are a number of things that can 
affect blood sugars. However, I don't think that your blood sugars 
should determine what meals you are going to eat especially since food 
is not the only factor that impacts on blood sugar.

I would like to help with lots of tips and tricks, but if I may do so, I 
will write you off list. You might also want to chat to me on Skype. My 
Skype ID. is "krapleachim" without the quotes, of course.

Wishing you all the best.

-- 
Michael Park
"I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness." (psalm 84:10 NKJV).

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