[Diabetes-Talk] new member

Wed Jan 23 21:33:56 UTC 2019

hello it's lester
my question is about the talking prodigy  meter Does the meter have a date 
on it  when it was made
do the meters go bad
also how long does it last
thanks for any info

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From: sandi via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:17 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Cc: sandi
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] new member

Hi Ryan,

First, get help, whatever you need, and stop smoking! You can do everything 
else right, but if you smoke you up your heart attack risk by more than 
double. I have been around many people who smoked and quit. I don’t have 
clinical data to tell the story, but my experience with them has, in all 
cases, been that their moods and attitudes improved. That will help a lot. 
In one case, a blind friend who quit smoking “cold turkey” had been looking 
for a job for nearly three years. Soon after quitting, she landed a job, 
which she is still doing more than five years later. It truly matters!

Physical activity (known widely as exercise) helps a lot with mood and 
attitude as well. As you gain strength and stamina, you will feel much 
better physically, and your mental outlook will improve, too. You don’t have 
to do anything strenuous or difficult—in fact, you shouldn’t at first if you’ve 
mostly been sitting. But go for a walk every day. Start off with a block, or 
a couple of minutes around the house. Increase the distance and your speed 
as you go along. I own a treadmill, because it snows quite a bit here during 
some winters, and we have blasting winds sometimes, so walking outside is 
just not my cup of tea! On the treadmill I bought, I can use all the 
functions I care about (though I can’t read the screen, being totally 
blind). But everything on the machine is controlled with a real push-button!

I am a type 2 diabetic and a former registered dietitian, so I play around 
with food quite a bit. I like food from both the crockpot and Instant Pot, 
one of which is accessible with the iPhone. Here are just a couple of 
guidelines to use to improve your eating plan:

1.  The container is not a serving. Have someone help you know the number of 
servings in a container, and the number of grams of carbohydrate in a 
serving. If you eat more than one serving, that isn’t a problem, but if you 
do, you have to count the carbs for each serving. That adds up fast! If you 
eat the whole container and it’s four servings, you’re getting way too much.
2. You can choose prepared meals that are lower in carbs and salt, but you 
need to figure out which ones those are and which ones you like. Healthy 
Choice is one brand of these meals; Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine is another—but I’m 
not endorsing either of these, and there are also other brands. These are 
examples.
3. Eating to feel less sad does not work. Quitting smoking and exercise help 
that. Eat when you’re hungry, and not all the time. Having said that, eat 
what you like that fits in your healthier diet. People who give up this and 
give up that never succeed long-term, and long-term is what matters here.
4. Eating foods lower in carbohydrates will cut your cravings for those 
foods. Keep servings of starchy vegetables, refined grains, and especially 
sugar and other sweeteners, small. In most restaurants, a good tip is to cut 
the baked potato at least in half! Not everyone can do what I’m doing, but I 
skip sugar and sweeteners altogether, also white flour and other refined 
grains, and I can now eat a piece of chocolate without eating the whole bag. 
I don’t know if you can do it, and quit smoking first—don’t do these things 
together. But it will help.

Just one other comment: Many of us on this list are totally blind and have 
cooked for years, from scratch. To improve your mood, stop blaming what you 
can’t do on the blindness, and start looking for the support group someone 
mentioned, or help from your state agency. Get some training. You can learn 
to take care of yourself, including feeding yourself, without help—or with 
very little. But only you can make the decision to increase confidence in 
your abilities by tossing the “I’m blind” trap and getting help to believe 
that blindness doesn’t have to hold you back from anything you want to do.

Please accept this in the spirit of a “you-can-do-it” pep talk, not judgment 
of your life so far. Your new life can start today—and it can be a happy 
one!

Sandi

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From: ryan mcmanomy via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:26 AM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: ryan mcmanomy
Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] new member

Hello my name is Ryan I am type two diabetes.
I have been blind sence age 5 I can see light colors and shadows.
I have a meter that talks but I have not mastered it yet I have a person 
that comes three times a week and a nerse that comes one time a week.
I was on meds for my diabetes  but it was affecting my kidneys  witch are 
getting bad.
I am trying not to bee sad all the time am I am on meds for that too but I 
smoke cigs and eat a lot to help it.
Beening blind I am not good at making a good mille to eat that is not from 
the freezer wich has a lot of salt or just grabbing the first thing I find.
Thank for any and all help and feel free to ask more if you want!

t
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