[Diabetes-talk] New member.

[Michael Park]

  Hi there.

I am Michael Park from South Africa and I am glad to be able to be on 
this list. I am a totally blind person. I am 52 years old and am 
presently studying at Bible college to go into pastoral counselling.

Since I am a diabetic myself, I am particularly interested in doing 
diabetic counselling and have been accredited as such by our local 
diabetes association, although I essentially operate under the umbrella 
of our church or as a peer group counsellor under the banner of 
Disability Connection, an advocacy group for the rights of the disabled 
in South Africa. I am particularly interested in counselling the 
disabled person who is diabetic and hope in due season to post a couple 
of questions here that I have stumbled on in the course of my work. I 
suspect that this field is not being adequately addressed the world 
over, but here in South Africa, the situation, to say the least, is grim 
when it comes to the disabled diabetic person.

Looking forward to participating in the list.

Sincerely.

-- 
Michael Park
"I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them." (Isaiah 42:16 NKJV).

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