[stylist] I am okay, still here

Donna Hill penatwork at epix.net
Fri Mar 11 16:44:33 UTC 2011 

Jim,
Good to see you back. I was wondering what was up. My sympathies with 
the computer problems. I had to re install everything last summer and 
still can't get Open Book to work with the scanner it worked with for 
several years. *grr*
Donna

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On 3/11/2011 2:22 AM, James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6yr wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> with her husband Roger and their son Jay. The Smiths are retired 
>> teachers,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>       My fifty-six-year-old husband Roger had been suffering from
>>
>> infections, headaches, congestion, and pain, and, when he went to the
>>
>> doctor to investigate the cause, they found a tooth fragment lodged 
>> in his
>>
>> sinus cavity, the result of a routine tooth extraction last summer.
>>
>>       Since Roger was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 
>> forty-eight, he
>>
>> had been managing with oral medication, improved diet, and increased
>>
>> exercise. He lost fifty pounds, and, although his A1C has crept up in
>>
>> recent years, he thought he was in reasonably good control. Then the
>>
>> surgeon called to report a blood glucose level of 270 mg/dl, more than
>>
>> double what a fasting glucose should be. Something had to change and 
>> fast.
>>
>>       Diabetes runs in Roger's family, and he has always known he might
>>
>> someday need to go on insulin. Although Splenda and other sugar-free
>>
>> goodies appear regularly on our grocery list, his diet is not as good 
>> as it
>>
>> should be. He was, and still is, a great fan of the all-you-can-eat 
>> buffet.
>>
>>
>>
>>       The morning after that disappointing phone call, we went to see 
>> our
>>
>> family doctor, and Roger got an A1C test. The result left everyone
>>
>> speechless: His A1C was 9.3 percent--far too high. Our doctor knew that
>>
>> Roger would prefer to avoid insulin injections, so she was surprised 
>> when
>>
>> he was the first one to suggest that option. Roger told the doctor about
>>
>> his twin sister Linda, who suffers from nerve damage as a 
>> complication of
>>
>> her diabetes. Roger didn't want to deny the seriousness of the 
>> disease, as
>>
>> he feared his sister may have done. He didn't want to develop kidney
>>
>> disease or neuropathy. And my husband cares more than most about the
>>
>> sensitivity in his hands and feet because he has been blind since birth.
>>
>>       I knew where Roger was coming from. I've also been blind since 
>> birth,
>>
>> and I have had type 2 diabetes since 2004, when I was sixty-five. 
>> Mine has
>>
>> always been well controlled with just two Metformin tablets a day. But I
>>
>> knew that my husband's A1Cs were getting out of control and that he 
>> would
>>
>> need a change. Roger started taking insulin injections the same day. He
>>
>> brought his blood glucose under control, and his surgery was 
>> completed on
>>
>> schedule. Three months later his A1C had dropped to 6.7. An A1C of 9.3
>>
>> right before surgery wasn't what my husband wanted or expected. But 
>> it got
>>
>> him on the right track to good diabetes control. He started on 
>> insulin, and
>>
>> he has been improving his diabetes management ever since.
>>
>>                                  ----------
>>
>> Robert Leslie Newman
>>
>> President, Omaha Chapter NFB
>>
>> President, NFB Writers' Division
>>
>> Division Website
>>
>> <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org> 
>> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
>>
>> Personal Website-
>>
>> <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>>
>>
>>
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