[stylist] I am okay, still here

Fri Mar 11 07:22:48 UTC 2011

Hi friends,
near the beginning of february my computer started acting strange.
this was followed by a hardware problem, then an operating system 
problem.  just tonight I have I am back on e-mail, but without my 
addressbook.

I hope my absence hasn't been worrysome for some of you.  I did put 
together a valentine's story, in an exercise to see just how short a 
story I could actually write.
I hope to post it soon.

jc

At 11:17 AM 2/20/2011, you wrote:
>When I recognize that one of our membership has published an article within
>one of our NFB family of publications, I will copy it and bring it to the
>rest of you for your reading pleasure and to highlight this success of a
>member. (I am sure that there are many other publication successes that I am
>unaware of, especially if it is in a non-NFB mag that I am not reading. And
>on that note, we could post articles/work of any member, if we become aware
>of it.)
>
>                                  ----------
>
>                             Voice of the Diabetic
>
>                                A Wake-Up Call
>
>                            by Marilyn Brandt Smith
>
>
>
>
>
>       From the Editor: Marilyn Brandt Smith lives in Louisville, Kentucky,
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>with her husband Roger and their son Jay. The Smiths are retired teachers,
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>and Marilyn is also a freelance writer and editor.
>
>
>
>
>
>        My husband's talking watch announced that it was 6:00 p.m. when the
>
>phone rang. Thanks to his audio caller ID, he knew instantly who was
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>calling that April evening. But the doctor's office should have been
>
>closed. Did surgeons work this late?
>
>       "You have to get your blood glucose down, or we aren't doing your
>
>surgery next week," said the voice on the other end of the line.
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>       My fifty-six-year-old husband Roger had been suffering from
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>infections, headaches, congestion, and pain, and, when he went to the
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>doctor to investigate the cause, they found a tooth fragment lodged in his
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>sinus cavity, the result of a routine tooth extraction last summer.
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>       Since Roger was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age forty-eight, he
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>had been managing with oral medication, improved diet, and increased
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>exercise. He lost fifty pounds, and, although his A1C has crept up in
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>recent years, he thought he was in reasonably good control. Then the
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>surgeon called to report a blood glucose level of 270 mg/dl, more than
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>double what a fasting glucose should be. Something had to change and fast.
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>       Diabetes runs in Roger's family, and he has always known he might
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>someday need to go on insulin. Although Splenda and other sugar-free
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>goodies appear regularly on our grocery list, his diet is not as good as it
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>should be. He was, and still is, a great fan of the all-you-can-eat buffet.
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>
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>       The morning after that disappointing phone call, we went to see our
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>family doctor, and Roger got an A1C test. The result left everyone
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>speechless: His A1C was 9.3 percent--far too high. Our doctor knew that
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>Roger would prefer to avoid insulin injections, so she was surprised when
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>he was the first one to suggest that option. Roger told the doctor about
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>his twin sister Linda, who suffers from nerve damage as a complication of
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>her diabetes. Roger didn't want to deny the seriousness of the disease, as
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>he feared his sister may have done. He didn't want to develop kidney
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>disease or neuropathy. And my husband cares more than most about the
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>sensitivity in his hands and feet because he has been blind since birth.
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>       I knew where Roger was coming from. I've also been blind since birth,
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>and I have had type 2 diabetes since 2004, when I was sixty-five. Mine has
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>always been well controlled with just two Metformin tablets a day. But I
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>knew that my husband's A1Cs were getting out of control and that he would
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>need a change. Roger started taking insulin injections the same day. He
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>brought his blood glucose under control, and his surgery was completed on
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>schedule. Three months later his A1C had dropped to 6.7. An A1C of 9.3
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>right before surgery wasn't what my husband wanted or expected. But it got
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>him on the right track to good diabetes control. He started on insulin, and
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>he has been improving his diabetes management ever since.
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>                                  ----------
>
>Robert Leslie Newman
>
>President, Omaha Chapter NFB
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>President, NFB Writers' Division
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>Division Website
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>  <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
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>Personal Website-
>
>  <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>
>
>
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