Help Me Help Others During Diabetes Awareness Month
Remember that tomorrow, November 1st kicks off Diabetes Awareness Month. Yee ha! So for the entire month of November, I am inviting y’all to share your stories of “diabetic living” with me and your fellow readers. Send me your thoughts, frustrations, accomplishments and everyday feelings and gripes and with your permission I will post it for all to see. It is always nice to get a fresh take on things and see that others live with the same thoughts and worries that you do. So come on and send me something… anything. I know you are out there, haha. Don’t let me down!
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6 opinions for Help Me Help Others During Diabetes Awareness Month
AmyT of www.diabetesmine.com
Nov 1, 2007 at 11:37 am
Hey Kendra,
If you want to know what’s going on for upcoming World Diabetes Day (Nov 14), see this update:
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/11/world-diabetes-.html
Best,
AmyT
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Nov 2, 2007 at 7:09 am
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health goji
Nov 2, 2007 at 9:12 am
A couple of comments here - and many of you already may know these things but it doesn’t hurt to repeat them for those who don’t.
…some groups have a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes than others. Type 2 diabetes is more common in African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, as well as the aged population.
…Some complications of type 2 diabetes include: heart disease (cardiovascular disease), blindness (retinopathy), nerve damage (neuropathy), and kidney damage (nephropathy).
The other point I want to make is for people to become more aware of pre- diabetes and develop better eating and nutrition habits of less sugars and carbs before they get diabetes.
Those groups mentioned above as well as obese or overweight people or people with excess belly fat should be the most concerned. As well as those with a family history of diabetes.
L. Lewis
Nov 2, 2007 at 2:52 pm
My foster mother was Type 1 diabetic, had her first heart attack at 23 and only had tunnel vision in one eye before she was 30. None of it ever got her down, it was amazing. I asked her one day how she did it (being 14 her life seemed like a complete horror to me). She told me “each morning before I give myself my shot I take the time to think on the good things, and more importantly the good people, I have in my life and that reminds me of how important that needle is to me.”
She always had a postive outlook. Her cat was also diabetes. She found him as an almost newborn in a garbage can, took him home and eye dropper fed him. When he was diagnosed with diabetes and had to have insulin shots every day she said “This is the reason I have diabetes. Almost anyone else would have put the cat down.”
All I know is that now, 30 years later, whenever I get whiny about things happening to me, I just think of what she went through and the class, humor and love she brought to my life. Makes my “things” seem very trivia.
Kendra James, RN
Nov 2, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Amy- thanks for the link :). Good info…
health goji- thanks for all your recent comments and sharing your knowledge and thoughts. And you are right, pre-diabetes needs to be acknowledged and people need to be aware and make life changes to help themselves!
L.Lewis- thanks for that great story. That is so awesome and I think that it is important for people to take check and realize that we only have one go around- so make it the best we can. Thanks so much for sharing!! :) And the cat was lucky to have her as well!
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