[Diabetes-Talk] Your new president...

[d m gina]

I am just now getting on the computer.
I am pleased you are president.
The times we spoke on the phone I felt you know what you are doing, and 
just jump rite in and get it done.
I still am exercising, because I love doing it.
Where I decided in December I was going to not weigh in, and just enjoy 
the month.
So I did
I ate the good stuff as the rabbit said on bambi and I ate the bad 
stuff as well.
What ever bad stuff means to each person.
I am sure when I get my a one c done it will rock either direction.
I still don't feel that food is all the cause of being a diabetic.
Stress still has a part to pay.
I have lost many a good friend in December going to the Lord as Mike did.
So stress was a part in this.
Then the cold decided to come visit.
I still have sinus infection from it, over two months.
Went to a nose throat doctor learning that I am losing hearing in the left ear.
The high is the problem, so in a crowd it is harder to know the 
direction persons are speaking to me from.
We did go to parties, where I learned that some sweets taste worse now 
than they used to so what a blessing for that.
I just lived, enjoyed December and ready for a new year no matter what.
You are special to me, and that will always be.
Blessings always,

Original message:
> Good Afternoon Everyone!!!

> Happy New Year!!!

> Firstly, I'd like to begin by telling you a little bit about myself
> for those of you who don't know me.  I'm aware, however that most of
> you do.  I am Bernadette Jacobs, formerly, about 18 years ago,
> Bernadette Krajewski.  I have been first vice-president now since, I
> believe, about 2007.  Don't hesitate to correct me if somebody out
> there finds me to be wrong.  At any rate, I did have a one-year break
> while Sandy Ryan served just last year--2015-2016.  Thank you Sandy.
> Since the unfortunate passing of our illustrious and fearless leader
> Mike Freeman's passing, I will do my best to serve you as our Diabetes
> Action Network's president and your list moderator.

> I will warn you.  I can't do this all alone, however.  I need all of
> you to work with me and teach me as you have done about our conditions
> for the past so many years.  Most of what I have learned about my own
> diabetes, I've learned from all of you.  You've been so gracious.  But
> that's what we're in this thing for.  Right????  Helping each other
> and taking care of each other.  So, I'd like to say, Welcome home and
> Happy New Year!!!

> I was diagnosed as a type II diabetic in about March of 1985.  This,
> of course, was before the age of "pre-diabetes."  I have been insulin
> dependent since 1999 when My husband Bill and I were first married and
> I became pregnant with the baby we lost in miscarriage.  I have been a
> member of the Diabetes Action Network, (DAN) since its inception in
> 1985.

> My mother was a diabetic and I lost my mother to complications of
> diabetes at the tender age of 13.  She, herself was only 47.  She had
> three heart attacks, the third of which, resulted in her passing.  I
> remember it as if were Yesterday.  When I came into DAN, I told it's
> then president, Ed Bryant, that my mother was a diabetic and died of
> complications.  He gave me that gentle kick in the seat of the pants,
> "And you are diabetic too..."  Of course, he also recognized I was in
> that old familiar river, "Denial???"  Ed Bryant, the gentle man he
> was, took me under his fatherly wing and we worked together up until
> his passing.  Mike came in and we all continued on.  I must say, that
> his passing on December 24, shocked and deeply saddened me just as it
> has everyone else.

> Now, everyone, I'd like to take this time to thank you!!  For, it's
> all of you who've taught me so much about the conditions that we share
> together.  Taught me about insulin pumps, complications, and the
> heartaches we've suffered together as well as foo the positive bits of
> news.  There are so many of you that I simply can't wait to hear about
> something new you've learned, discovered and/or whatever else.  It
> simply warms my heart to the moon and back to hear from you as I feel
> like we're such a great big family.  Isn't it wonderful???  I think
> it's phantabulous!!!  SQUEEEEEZE!!!!!  i DO hope that all of you will
> continue to write in with all your things, both good and bad so that
> we can all continue to share, learn, and work together.  I'll miss you
> if you don't!!

> Until next time, take care and have a great day!!!

> Below, I'll be posting my Email, so that you can write me offlist for
> anything strictly confidential you might need help with.  I will then
> share my cell phone with you that we may continue our work together.

> Very Warmly,

> Bernadette M. Jacobs, (Bernie, Bern).

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