[stylist] I am okay, still here

Sat Mar 12 07:29:52 UTC 2011

thanks Donna, Judith and Myrna,
this is Jim Judith, remember.
withdrawal, you got that right there myrna!
still trying to recover my addressbook with literal hundreds of 
e-mail addresses!

I remember doing e-mail in fact 30 years ago, we didn't have 
addressbooks, and the e-mail addresses had exclamation marks in them, 
or speech called them "bang."
yes, that was 1981.  weren't too many people to write to then.
jc

At 11:17 AM 3/11/2011, you wrote:
>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
> >>
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