[Diabetes-Talk] Your new president...

Tue Jan 3 13:27:36 UTC 2017

Ya know Dar,  I've always felt the same about you.  I always enjoy
talking to you on the phone.  Spent a good time talking to a lot of
you out here.  This is only the beginning.  And, the whole thing makes
me very, very happy.

As for taking some time off, GOOD...FOR...YOU!!!  We all have to do
that sometimes.  You are right about the stress thing.  I keep telling
people the worst we can do is kick ourselves in the teeth day after
day.  So, when our teeth run out, then what???  Speaking of stress???
I'm sure you'll do fine.  I have confidence in you, just like everyone
else on here.  I just keep telling my daughter.  Ya know, if today was
a bad day, tomorrow is going to be a new one.  We can only take one
day at a time.  Just like eating an elephant--one bite at a time.  So
ends my sermon for the day Gang!!!

Have a great day!!

Bern

On 1/2/17, d m gina via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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