Comments on: The Diabetic Partner Follies, Act 15: Walk a Mile in These Shoes http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/07/the-diabetic-pa.html A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Bernard Farrell http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/07/the-diabetic-pa.html/comment-page-1#comment-38170 Bernard Farrell Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:42:07 +0000 http://diabetesmine.dreamhosters.com/2007/07/04/the-diabetic-partner-follies-act-15-walk-a-mile-in-these-shoes/#comment-38170 Michael For a disease like the D, you really need to constantly educate yourself. No doctor or CDE can help you enough based on a 30 minute session once every few months. Diabetes blogs help a lot, as do sites such as TuDiabetes.com where you can learn from others with diabetes. Michael

For a disease like the D, you really need to constantly educate yourself. No doctor or CDE can help you enough based on a 30 minute session once every few months. Diabetes blogs help a lot, as do sites such as TuDiabetes.com where you can learn from others with diabetes.

]]> By: michael http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/07/the-diabetic-pa.html/comment-page-1#comment-38169 michael Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:44:08 +0000 http://diabetesmine.dreamhosters.com/2007/07/04/the-diabetic-partner-follies-act-15-walk-a-mile-in-these-shoes/#comment-38169 thanks for the info and thoughts. vicky - i'd love to get the name/URL of the doctor you use. linda - thankfully, my wife now has a great GP and a strong endocrinologist, but it sure took a lot of switching to get there. lauren - i've become quite a fast short-order nocturnal crash cook. probably my best is PB&J, but i also do a mean cookies and milk. thanks for the info and thoughts. vicky – i’d love to get the name/URL of the doctor you use. linda – thankfully, my wife now has a great GP and a strong endocrinologist, but it sure took a lot of switching to get there. lauren – i’ve become quite a fast short-order nocturnal crash cook. probably my best is PB&J, but i also do a mean cookies and milk.

]]> By: Linda B. http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/07/the-diabetic-pa.html/comment-page-1#comment-38168 Linda B. Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:41:49 +0000 http://diabetesmine.dreamhosters.com/2007/07/04/the-diabetic-partner-follies-act-15-walk-a-mile-in-these-shoes/#comment-38168 One of the best things you can do is to educate yourself and ask questionsof every healthcare person that you all are dealing with. Your wife I would hope would want to educate herself on how to take care of the small issues that can come up daily as well as the larger issues that can develop down the road. In closing I would just like to say, in a lot of ways you are right about diabetes sucking and having to plan things out rather than being spontaneous and such,but, I have found over the years that you either let this take you over or you take controlover it. It took me twenty years, several complications and the loss of my child to finally learn this for myself. It was a long hard lesson to learn but I wouldn't change the journey to where I am now for anything. P>S> If you both feel that you are not getting the answers or results you feel your doc should be giving you, try an endocrinologist and seeing a cde. Most GP and internists just don't have the training to keep up with all the treatments and advances that are coming out all the time.Just a thought. One of the best things you can do is to educate yourself and ask questionsof every healthcare person that you all are dealing with. Your wife I would hope would want to educate herself on how to take care of the small issues that can come up daily as well as the larger issues that can develop down the road. In closing I would just like to say, in a lot of ways you are right about diabetes sucking and having to plan things out rather than being spontaneous and such,but, I have found over the years that you either let this take you over or you take controlover it. It took me twenty years, several complications and the loss of my child to finally learn this for myself. It was a long hard lesson to learn but I wouldn’t change the journey to where I am now for anything.
P>S> If you both feel that you are not getting the answers or results you feel your doc should be giving you, try an endocrinologist and seeing a cde. Most GP and internists just don’t have the training to keep up with all the treatments and advances that are coming out all the time.Just a thought.

]]> By: Vicki http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/07/the-diabetic-pa.html/comment-page-1#comment-38167 Vicki Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:20:45 +0000 http://diabetesmine.dreamhosters.com/2007/07/04/the-diabetic-partner-follies-act-15-walk-a-mile-in-these-shoes/#comment-38167 If your type 1 wife has been in the hospital with DKA and is developing foot problems, clearly here insulin dosage needs adjusting. If her doctors don't know how to help her, she needs to find one who does. These kinds of problems do not need to happen. I happen to know of an online diabetes list whose moderator, a retired diabetic engineer, has devised a formula that clearly works. I've been using his methods for 9 years as a type 1 diabetic and I've never experienced either DKA or any diabetes related problems. If your type 1 wife has been in the hospital with DKA and is developing foot problems, clearly here insulin dosage needs adjusting. If her doctors don’t know how to help her, she needs to find one who does. These kinds of problems do not need to happen. I happen to know of an online diabetes list whose moderator, a retired diabetic engineer, has devised a formula that clearly works. I’ve been using his methods for 9 years as a type 1 diabetic and I’ve never experienced either DKA or any diabetes related problems.

]]> By: Lauren http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/07/the-diabetic-pa.html/comment-page-1#comment-38166 Lauren Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:24:05 +0000 http://diabetesmine.dreamhosters.com/2007/07/04/the-diabetic-partner-follies-act-15-walk-a-mile-in-these-shoes/#comment-38166 Speaking of putting yourself in another's shoes ... last night around 5 a.m. I woke up with one of those nocturnal lows that jolts you out of sleep. I must have looked like a complete madwoman: dishevelled, sweaty, shaking, basically a stunning picture of semi-conscious hypogylcemia. For some reason, I did not realize it was ME having the low. I don't know if I'd been dreaming he also had diabetes, or if I was just delirious, but I offered my boyfriend the glucose tablets on my nightstand. When he refused I got angry and asked why he was picking a fight with me. My memory of the event is foggy, but I do recall feeling annoyed and frustrated at his pigheaded refusal to eat the glucose tabs. Fortunately he realized I was in trouble and coaxed ME, the real-life type 1 diabetic, into eating four tablets. From this, I've learned that nocturnal hypoglycemic episodes have the potential to be accompanied by disorientation and irrationality. Today is one day I'm especially grateful not to live alone. If I'd tried to force-feed glucose tablets to my teddy bear at 4 a.m., I would probably be missing quite a few more brain cells today. Speaking of putting yourself in another’s shoes … last night around 5 a.m. I woke up with one of those nocturnal lows that jolts you out of sleep. I must have looked like a complete madwoman: dishevelled, sweaty, shaking, basically a stunning picture of semi-conscious hypogylcemia. For some reason, I did not realize it was ME having the low. I don’t know if I’d been dreaming he also had diabetes, or if I was just delirious, but I offered my boyfriend the glucose tablets on my nightstand. When he refused I got angry and asked why he was picking a fight with me. My memory of the event is foggy, but I do recall feeling annoyed and frustrated at his pigheaded refusal to eat the glucose tabs. Fortunately he realized I was in trouble and coaxed ME, the real-life type 1 diabetic, into eating four tablets.

From this, I’ve learned that nocturnal hypoglycemic episodes have the potential to be accompanied by disorientation and irrationality. Today is one day I’m especially grateful not to live alone. If I’d tried to force-feed glucose tablets to my teddy bear at 4 a.m., I would probably be missing quite a few more brain cells today.

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