[stylist] I am okay, still here

Fri Mar 11 17:17:53 UTC 2011

Yes, welcome back.. and I have to tell you I just went  through the same 
thing...I know what withdrawal feels like  now...LOL

In a message dated 3/11/2011 11:04:22 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
jbron at optonline.net writes:

Welcome  back JC!  Or should I say welcome back JC's computer?  Glad to 
hear  
all is well, Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James H.  "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6yr" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
To:  <newmanrl at cox.net>; "Writer's Division Mailing List"  
<stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:22  AM
Subject: [stylist] I am okay, still here

> 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
>>
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>>
>>  <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info>  http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>>
>>
>>
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