[Diabetes-talk] New member.

[Mike Freeman]

Welcome to our list. I hope you find the discussion here enlightening. We're 
a pretty friendly bunch and are anxious that blind persons achieve optimal 
control of their diabetes. Our aim is both to embody the philosophy of the 
National Federation of the Blind which, in essence, says that it is 
respectable to be blind, and to help people to realize that blindness need 
not hinder them in achieving control of diabetes.

Again, welcome.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Park" <pageforpage at gmail.com>
To: <Diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 2:04 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] New member.


>  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).
>
> We support NVDA, a free screenreading program for the blind, giving high 
> quality computer access to many commercial applications, as well as 
> portability.
>
>
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