[Diabetes-talk] Hello from a new member

[d m gina]

Hello
I'm pleased you learned about you becoming a diabetic, if you felt 
badly and went to see what was happening with your health.
My name is Dar, and you can write to me as well if you wish to ask any 
questions.
I'm not a pro but I can share what is working for me.
My email address is
dmgina at samobile.net
I know all here know more about this than I,
they will share as well.
Let us know the speech you are using.
I'm with serotek, but many folks work with jaws.
Hope this helps.

Original message:
> 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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