Type 1 diabetes

It even has restaurants if they are a national chain!

Dana Carpenter’s Carb Gram Counter

I highly recommend it!

Rhonda

There are great books about carbs thanks to this Atkins craze. Go check out your local book store and it will make life at buffets and everywhere else much easier.

Rhonda

Hi Robby, I am writing in to answer some of your questions but hope the information helps anyone else out there who wasn’t
aware of these things.
First: Robby, if you go on Amazon.com, you can find a book that will give you the carb amounts when eating out. There is one that
lists all foods even in restaurants.
Second: I said that as men age, impotency can become a problem whether they are well controlled or not. My poor brother-in-law has
battled this for 10 years. I did not say it would happen to you, it’s just another complication that can arise through no fault on one’s own
care. You are young and if the doc creates a ‘woody’, then Congrats are in order. Third: Nerve pain is from the damage due to neuropathy. This condition will occur from poor control, alcohol abuse, smoking, spinal disease and a whole
host of other conditions. Don’t generalize that because the nerve is damaged there is no pain. When it starts, usually in the feet the symptoms are
electric like shocks in the feet and legs, just chronic soreness in the toes. . It is very, very painful! They treat it with a drug called Neurontin in
very high doses. This drug can be dangerous. Once again, there is no guarantee that you will ever have it.
Peripheral Neuropathy occurs over many years, not overnight and it affects the extremities first. The areas farthest from the heart (fingers - toes).
Mine started in 1994 with the shock feeling in my toes and leg pain/cramping. At the time, although I was well controlled, no physician I saw could tell
me why it was happening. I just found out last year that it is due to the spinal disease I have. It leads to complete numbness in the affected area. If caught in time, nerve damage can be slowed down but never cured. Both of my feet are nerve damaged due to my spine and now my fingers are starting it as well.
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i keep somehow clinching my fists after i prick myself and
unknowingly lots of blood comes out. i’ve already gotten it all over
my clothes, papers, and my log book. i used to faint at the sight of
blood. i still cover my eyes and tense up before i get a shot or
blood taken.
robby

Actually he is our nurse, but we love him all the same. His name is Ken and he is such a sweetie! (We took him a Christmas gift/holiday gift at our December appointment.) Anyway, I just figured while we were bashing and then giving compliments I’d join in.

Ken responds to phone calls and emails within hours, not days. Always has encouraging words to say. And even inquired about tickets for Syd’s Nutcracker performance.

Gold Stars for Ken!

Rhonda

If we ever get this meet and greet off the ground hubby and I’ll teach you to jitterbug.

Keep those feet healthy!

Love,

Rhonda

is he type 1 or 2?

it was weird. after i was on that iv and they flushed me out, my
eyesight was nearly perfect. i was seeing things from across the room
and reading small letters from far away that i’d never have been able
to see before. that lasted about 2 - 3 weeks. its back to normal now.
i wonder what happened? it was strange.
robby

i never thought i’d get used to drinking diet pop. i’ve found there
are quite a few i dont mind. they gave me diet 7 up in the hospital
and i almost puked. that was the sickest crap i’ve ever tasted! i
hate diet coke also, its sick. my favorite is diet sunkist orange. it
tastes almost exactly the same as regular. diet pepsi is good also. i
also like diet mountain dew a lot. diet a&w rootbeer isnt bad. when i
was in the hospital, the nurse said to me, now take care of yourself,
i dont want to see you back here in 30 years getting a leg cut off.
now is that something you should say to someone who just found out
they have this condition? gees!
robby

I was wondering that or your shoes.
What do your shoes have to do with your feet with diabetes.
Thanks
Keri