[Diabetes-talk] New Member.

[Vincent Chaney]

Michael,

I was away when you joined the list and I would want to wish you a belated welcome also. I hope your surgery had gone well. You noted it was not diabetes related, but any shock to the body,inclusive of surgery, for someone with diabetes can send your sugar levels into a spiral state.
I have found your writings of how persons with diabetes and blindness in Africa have very little information and support to be a reminder of persons living in other countrys. 
With the guidance of the Lord on your shoulder may you bring much peace, comfort and information to those whom are willing and able to listen.

Vinny
Vincent Chaney Jr
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Park 
  To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 6:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] New Member.


  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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