[Nfb-krafters-korner] to the Diabetics

[Blindhands at aol.com]

I have been on insulin for 53 years and just recently they added Janeuvia  
to my regime. .  I take Lantis once a day around 2 pm and I take 3 or  4 
injections of Novalog on a sliding scale determined by counting carbs I am  
eating and blood sugar level.    The Janeuvia defintely has  helped keep my 
blood sugars better.  I still am a brittle diabetic and  blood sugars bounce 
all over the place, but I have lived with this since I was 7  years old.
 
I went blind due to having artery bypass surgery due to artery  disease.  I 
have minimal background retinapathy and that is usually what  diabetics 
lose their sight by.  I had 2 silent heart attacks by the age of  46.  So 
diabetes is something I deal with on a daily basis.  
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 1/24/2012 3:10:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
denise.shaible at att.net writes:

Joyce,

I'm diabetic and I found that very interesting.   I've never had to inject 
insulin but, I've taken pills.  I wonder  when the pills became available. 
I'm so glad there are easy ways to test  the blood sugar now.  Currently, I 
take supplements and eat a vegan  diet.  I'm sure that's not for everyone 
but, it works for me.   Thanks for the article.

Regards,

Denise

-----Original  Message----- 
From: Blindhands at aol.com
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012  12:32 PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject:  [Nfb-krafters-korner] to the Diabetics

January 23, 1922:
This comes  from History.com
At Toronto General  Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian  Leonard Thompson becomes
the first person to  receive an insulin  injection as treatment for 
diabetes.
Diabetes has been  recognized as  a distinct medical condition for more than
3,000 years, but its  exact  cause was a mystery until the 20th century. By
the
early 1920s,  many  researchers strongly suspected that diabetes was caused
by a  malfunction in the  digestive system related to the pancreas gland,  a
small
organ that sits on  top of the liver. At that time, the  only way to treat
the fatal disease was  through a diet low in  carbohydrates and sugar and 
high
in
fat and protein.  Instead  of dying shortly after diagnosis, this diet
allowed diabetics to   live--for about a year.
A breakthrough came at the University of Toronto  in  the summer of 1921,
when Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles  Best  successfully isolated
insulin
from canine test subjects,  produced diabetic  symptoms in the animals, and
then began a program  of insulin injections that  returned the dogs to
normalcy.
On  November 14, the discovery was announced to  the world.
Two months  later, with the support of J.J.R. MacLeod of the  University  of
Toronto, the two scientists began preparations for an insulin   treatment 
of 
a
human subject. Enlisting the aid of biochemist J.B.  Collip,  they were able
to extract a reasonably pure formula of  insulin from the pancreas  of 
cattle
from slaughterhouses and used it  to treat Leonard Thompson. The  diabetic
teenager improved  dramatically, and the University of Toronto   immediately
gave
pharmaceutical companies license to produce insulin,  free of  royalties. By
1923, insulin had become widely available,  saving countless lives  around
the
world, and Banting and Macleod  were awarded the Nobel Prize in  Medicine.


Joyce   Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
Blindhands at AOL.com
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