hey guys, by the way, on another message board im
at, i heard about a new kind of long acting insulin,
called Lantus. have you heard of it? its supposed to be
GREAT, like the equivalent of the insulin pumps basal
rate. www.lantus.com/information/home.html is a site
with more info on it.<br
NEW SUBJECT…..who is
first…..???!!!!?????<br
companies
who try to put us under?????<br
how you started off when diagnosed with
diabetes?<br
warm, hot, cold or rainy where you live????<br
pesty characters in your family.?????<br
dying to hear about it!!!!!!!!<br
PS…this started off like a good busy board, only your
postings make it so. No postings….sure death!!!!!
You is good!!!! Nice to see you make the appearance. It’s getting unusual on
this board.<br
I was going to say what Jenny just said. I’m in
full agreement with that statement from her.<br
have dia for 41 years on the needle and take 6 needles
per day right now. Have been lucky with the
complications in a way. I get foot and ankle ulcers that take 3
month of intensive care to heal, but so far they did
heal. My bad complication is caused by having to
catherterize<br
complications on top of complications and will never change.
Lucky with kidneys and eyes.(so far) When I got it at
30 my doctor said I would not make 65. Now I’m 71.
Soooooo!<br
wouldn’t in my condition. Your may be entirely different
and much worse. We all are different.<br
the ease of things is concerned, it was good to have
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I’ve finaly got my new Hoveround electric
wheelchair. It is so great I get all<br
his birthday or Christmas just thinking about it.
It’s not<br
all kinds of problems with<br
it) it’s what it does for me that is so great. I can
go<br
the front and back yards<br
help me. I couldn’t get off the sidewalks even
with<br
myself. Yesterday I<br
blocks back) to see Jimmy G. my<br
barber. He’s a neat guy, born in California, was a
marine<br
gets so upset with people that<br
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Hi all, It has been some time since I posted
(hjad successful vitrectomy surgery to repair a
torn/detached retina and will have follow-up surgery in the
fall to fix a cataract caused by the vitrectomy). But
that isn’t the topic for this post.<br
been busy trying to get into the islet cell transplant
research studies being done. After intensive preliminary
tests (they took 20 tubes of blood yesterday) the
National Institute of Health (NIH) has told me that
physically I am an excellent candidate and are now awaiting
my decision on whether or not I want to get the
transplants and be in the study for the next 3 years. This is
not the easy decision it appears.<br
talking to the doctors leading the research (Dr. Harlan
and Dr. Hirshberg) I now know what the newspaper
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I wrestled with how to tell Jodi that we now have
2 daughters<br
(The fatal version) and not knowing<br
react since it is a hereditary disease that is passed
from<br
told her at the dinner table<br
of 43 years never ceases to amaze me. SHE<br
With her nurses training and having been extremely
close to<br
knowledge level of the disease is<br
Becky is systemic. She looked at me with amazement<br
on her face and pointed out that Becky does not have
the skin lesions or<br
of the cutaneous version. (The non-life<br
threatening) She had not said anything to me not wanting to
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