[Diabetes-talk] Hello from a new member

[cheryl echevarria]

Welcome to the group Steve and Julie:

My name is Cheryl Echevarria and I have been a member of DAN since 2002, I am also a medical insurance specialist aside from my signature below.

If you need anything please post, I have been diabetic since the age of 13 that I know of, I also lost my vision as an adult it will 10 years on December 10, 2011, So I am new but not new to blindness.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Julie Kline<mailto:julie.kline at rochester.rr.com> 
  To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 6:58 PM
  Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Hello from a new member


  Good afternoon,

  My name is Julie and like someone else on here, I too was recently diagnosed
  with type 2 diabetes.  Well, I guess I can't say recently because it has
  been almost two months now.  It was kind of a surprise actually though not
  really if I think about it rationally.  I have it as part of my family
  history.  My brother has shown some tendencies towards diabetes.  It runs
  from my mom to her mother,  to my grandmother's mother, and who knows from
  there.  It was always one of those things I knew would probably happen
  someday, but now?  Anyway, I went to my doctor's office for another
  unrelated issue and he was running a blood test for something else ... And
  ... Surprise!  So someday came and my diagnosis is here.

  Anyway I just wanted to say to Steve that I can understand where things get
  overwhelming when you're trying to figure out where to start.  My job isn't
  very generous with our time off, so meetings to a diabetic educator have
  been very rare because they work 8 to 5 like I do.  I know how it is when
  you have a lot thrown at you in a short period of time.  God bless my
  husband too, he has been incredibly patient through this whole thing.

  I use the prodigy voice meter for testing.  For the most part I'm successful
  with it, occasionally I run into sometimes where no matter what I do I set
  that lancet to maximum sting and I still can't get blood out of a finger,
  but for the most part it has told me quite a bit.  At least I know my levels
  before and after starting medications that were prescribed for me, and that
  knowledge really helped to make the diabetes diagnosis sink in and seem more
  real.

  In any case, I look forward to getting to meet people on here who do this
  every day.  I don't mean to sound like a sponge, but I have quite a few
  questions I'd like to ask and am interested in what ideas people have come
  up with to make different food items that taste good, and I also wanted to
  fined out websites that work with speech technology.

  Take care and have a good evening.
  Thanks.
  Julie


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