[Diabetes-talk] Introduction and the first of many questions.

[d m gina]

Wow glad you have enough vision to read your reading?
Or do you have to get someone to do that for you?
There are talking meters out there, and that is the best to get.
We use the prodigy meter, this meter tells you all of your readings, 
when you don't hear it the first time, you can push a button and it 
will tell you what it said.
You test because you need to know if you are to high or to low in your sugars.
And then you know what you need to do for the next meal.
if I am high in the morning, I will still eat my breakfast, as of today 
a bacon egg with cheese sandwich.
and fruit.
Have my coffee of course loll.
For lunch I had a peanut butter sandwich with a small bag of freetoes.
Sure I spelled that wrong smile.
Now I will do a stake rap for dinner.
Adding some nuts, because I love the taste.
You can have a begel from time to time, there is nothing wrong with that.
some folks like cream cheese with it, and the low fat is good.
I know folks who do the weight watcher diet and do well.
you try to stay with chicken for the most part, or turkey.
Cut back on red meat not so often.
You must also watch your desserts, because to many of those will cause 
your numbers to go higher than you care for.
yes in my family there are no diabetics either, so I have no clue how 
on earth I got it either.
I do walk the tread mill for exercise, and this helps as well.
Getting the pounds off.
Make sure you keep in salads any grain foods, this helps with the diet as well.
I don't follow a diabetic diet myself, I just cut back on foods, and 
eat the ones I like in small portions.
I am sorry you are going blind, where this shouldn't stop your singing at all.
Many blind folks sing.
I know I can't answer all of your questions, just know you will be fine.
Others will jump in and help you as well.
My name is Dar, feel free to write me any time.

Original message:
> Hello to All:

> This is Lynda and I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2 almost 2 months
> ago.  Because my blindness is congenital, I didn't think I could get
> this disease? condition?  My doctor says it is a disease.  I hate that
> label!  I'm having a very hard time coping with this.    Embarrassment
> is my immediate reaction to this because no one in my family has it and
> it has never been one of the things we have delt with.  Is this common
> or, am I as out of place in the world as I now feel?

> I am a Classical singer and voice teacher in Kansas where I currently
> reside with my husband, Jim and our pet yellow lab, ten-year-old Darby
> who should be getting out of surgery about now.

> I followed the "Weight Watchers Quick Start Plus Program when it first
> came out in the 1980s and several people in my class who were diabetics
> followed it as well.  so, I thought, "I'll just go back on that because
> it was the one version of the program that I completely understood and
> I love it!  However, this time it isn't working.  My husband has blood
> sugar problems because He takes a lot of steroids for his various very
> complicated health issues.  Although he watches his sugar he is not
> diabetic.    He says that with diabetes you count carbs not calories.
> Of course, he can't explain how it's done but, if I have a "bad
> carbohydrate, like half a bagel, he can say it's bad.  He also says
> that the Weight Watchers exchanges are different from the diabetic ones
> but he can't tell me why that is or the conversion formula if there is
> one.    Can anybody help put this right for me?  How are the exchanges
> different?  How can you tell which carbohydrates are good or bad?  How
> about portion control?  Both of us could stand to lose more than a few
> pounds which is fine with me, I would happily change whatever I need
> too in order to accomplish that.  As far as Jim goes... ask him what he
> eats in one meal and you will get the picture.  I have asked more than
> my one question.  and I have so many more about diet and nutrition,
> obtaining glucose readings or ratings.  Are there diabetic cookbooks
> available?  Where might I find them?  My doctor says that if I can drop
> the excess weight, I won't have this any more.  Is this true?
> Sometimes I can't tell if that man is joking or telling the truth.

>                 Some time ago when Jim ordered more sugar testing
> supplies, the company gave more than requested.  We didn't know that
> they were going to be needed so soon.  They sent him an extra Prodigy
> Meter, and enough neetles to last him for a lifetime, several lancets,
> testing solution and bottles of strips.  I have benefited from this
> bountiful supply.  After inheriting the new Prodigy Meter, two Lancet
> shooters, strips for the Meter, about thirty boxes of neetles, and
> testing solution for the strips, and a carying case I am in the process
> of figuring out just where to store things until I need them.  Learning
> to take my blood sugar before my first cup of coffee is difficult at
> best and some mornings I can't get it at all.  My diabetes educator at
> the hospital said that I have to practice taking my blood sugar in the
> same way that I practice for an upcoming performance.  If I did that,
> my fingers would be varying shades of purple and who knows what other
> colors I might turn.  I can't see myself poking my fingers for four
> hours a day just to get one silly little two or three digits to flash
> across a screen and tell me what they are.  What do they mean and why
> is it necessary to know them.           I will look forward to your
> answering as many of my questions as you can and it is my hope that
> some of us will become good friends.  I'll be watching my inbox.

> Lynda

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