[Diabetes-talk] need help for friend

[Bernadette Jacobs]

my email is: 

Bernienfb75 at gmail.com.  You may write me at anytime. I will then give you my telephone number so that we can talk via phone. I think that would make things far easier. Thank you. I will be delighted to help you. If I can't do this myself, depending on if we are you and she both live, I might know somebody who can help you personally. Thank you. Have a  Blessed day.

Bernadette M. Jacobs

Good morning MS. Jenkins.

Bernadette Jacobs here.

It appears to me that this is something that in order to help you and your friend, I think you need to write me off the list. I will then give you my phone number. I do not wish to publish my phone number on the list serve

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> On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:12 AM, Tia D Jenkins via Diabetes-talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I need some help for a friend of mine.  She is also diabetic and visually
> impaired like me.  She is almost totally blind now due to her diabetes but
> she is also half deaf due to a growth in her ear as a child  She has tried
> all kinds of pills to control her sugar but her a1c was almost 11 and she
> was just diagnosed with stage 2 kidney failure.  Her doctor wants her on
> Insulin but due to her hearing loss she cannot make out the clicks for a
> quick pen (cause the clicks are for people with normal hearing).  She cannot
> see good enough to tell if there is an air bubble or if she had the correct
> dose in a syringe.  We finally got VNA to come out and pre fill 2 weeks of
> medicine at a time but they keep trying to get out of it.  They keep saying
> she needs to get better friends (who aren't handicapped) , learn to do it
> herself, move into a nursing home, or give up her home and move in with her
> sister who lives out of state.  This is after her insurance company
> (Wellcare Medicare advantage plan) said they would approve them coming out.
> Does anyone have any idea of an adaptive aid that might be able to help.
> She has gone to her department of the blind but she gets no help.  She has
> asked for help in getting other adaptive aids like an audio thermostat for
> her heating and air cause she has one of the OLD slide bar ones that is hard
> for a sighted person to use is tearing up.  They told her they don't have
> money to help buy adaptive aids unless she was needing them for work.  
> 
> Any ideas or help would be much appreciated  
> Thanks
> Tia Jenkins 
> 
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