A few posts down I mentioned the difficulties and adaptation a newly diagnosed diabetic has to face. Jordon Cooper has had a tough time of it.
A neighbour of mine was a non-compliant diabetic, in constant pain. The night she died she shuffled to my door to ask me to change a light bulb. I was just talking to a friend who has been able to manage his diabetes for years without too many complications.
Can You Hear Me Now saw the post about Jordon and posted about living with his diabetes.
This chronic pain associated with diabetes is not something new but one might consider it to be simply because people with diabetes seldom talk about the pain. I don’t understand why that is. I have sympathy for Jordan’s plight because I know the pain…everyday I know the pain of it. I once thought that my pain threshold was very low but I’ve changed my mind about that. It’s confusing to me to consider that there can be that much pain in extremities that are “Numb” most of the time. Those two facts just don’t logically go together, not in my mind anyway.
He wants to know how others manage their day to day in his entry diabetic home remedies.
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my dad has had type 1 diabetes since he was 28 (and he is now 70). His younger brother had type 1 diabetes from the age of 3, and died of it a few years back at the age of 60. diabetes is a bad disease, and it just doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Most diabetics have type 2, which is less dramatic than type 1, but deadly and disabling just the same.
My dad has the resources to have top notch medical care, and he has the personal interest to manage his disease very intensively. He was one of the first group of persons to purchase and use home glucose monitors when they first became available in the 1980s. He has always been the right weight for his height, or even a little on the lean side. He always followed an exercise regime and has managed his diet better than most. Still, he went through kidney failure, only being rescued by a donation from one of us kids (the advantage of having a large family) about 21 years ago. He has had numerous laser surgeries for diabetic retinopathy and has so far managed to hold blindness at bay. He has osteoporosis from the anti-rejection drugs, and when he broke an ankle a few years ago, the incompetent orthopedist who treated him refused to do surgery because of the diabetes, but instead put him into a cast and didn’t take it off for 6 weeks, by which time he has a horrid pressure ulcer that took nearly a year to heal. He had home IV therapy, treatment with platelet concentrate for the wound healing, twice weekly visits from a nurse, etc. The diabetic neuropathy kept him from being able to feel the flesh literally rotting away under the cast. He doesn’t have the severe pain that many diabetics with neuropathy have, but I think that he might prefer that to the numbness and the literally not knowing where his feet are.
A doctor who worked with lepers and with neuropathy patients (who actually have a lot in common) wrote a book called “The Gift of Pain”. It is worth reading.
My dad is hanging in there. He’s had coronary bypass but no real heart attacks. His borrowed kidney is slowly showing damage after all this time, but his expensive multiple daily medications are keeping him going. He is still caring for himself as well as for his 90 year old mother. His expensive orthotic shoes are keeping him from doing too much damage to his feet. His insulin pump and glucose meter keep him as under control as humanly possible.
Yup, diabetes is nasty. But as nasty as it is, I still don’t think that it justifies using embryos as research tools.