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Hello, let me tell you about myself. I am a female that will be 50 years old come March. Time sure flew by. Let me tell about me up close and my personal experience with diabetes. I am a sergeant at my sheriff's office correctional center, but I learned about diabetes as a teenager. I am a type 2 diabetic.
I was 16 years old when my mother had a stroke. She was 51 years young and diagnosed as a diabetic. She was the woman that was too vain to get her eyes checked when her vision started to blur because glasses would make her look old. I ended up taking care of her for 25 year of her life and the last 5 years she was in a nursing home because I could no longer lift her. We went through a lot together. She had 5 strokes, went completely blind, back surgery for a abcess wrapped around her spine and bowel and I had to pack it for 8 years until it healed, masectomy of one breast to cancer, neuropathy in her legs and feet, kidneys shutting down but luckily the hospital was able to get them back working, numerous bladder infections, broken ankle that would not heal, pnuemonia aspiration, and lastly at 79 years old she died of staff infection from the surgeries she had for ulcers.
You see I have personally seen what diabetes can do. My brother has diabetes also. I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2006 at the age of 46 when I had a reoccurence of cellulitis in my legs. The cellulitis I got from working during Hurricane Katrina. In June 2009 I was hospitalized again, they took me off the medication because I was able to manage my diabetes by diet alone. I couldn't get an appointment with my endocrinologist. This year, I kept getting a low grade fever, sweating, skin feeling hot, and was feeling tired, I though I was going through menopause. I went to my family doctor and asked for lab work to be done. I had a bladder infection and my glucose level was 131. I asked my family doctor to give me a reference for an endocrinologist. I went to the endocrinologist who put me back on the metformin and he added byetta. My meter is showing my glucose level is back down to between 89 and 109.
At work, I have deputies under me that are diabetic and I seem to be the diabetes educator. Their glucose levels are in the 200's and 300's. My glucose level has only been in the low 100's. I do a lot of research on the internet and pass this information on to them. Each one of them has not recieved any information on diet planning, food exchange, or carb counting their endocrinologist. I noticed this to be the trend when I went to this latest endocrinologist that I did not get any type of diet or menu planning information. At least I had been using the information from 2006 and this has been helpful to pass on. I also pass on information I get from the internet and the booklets I get mailed to me.
This is the reason I joined, to get information for myself and also to pass on to others. I think we should all do this. I told one deputy, that if you have diabetes then your children are daibetic also and that the children will follow by your example of how to properly eat and live.
I was 16 years old when my mother had a stroke. She was 51 years young and diagnosed as a diabetic. She was the woman that was too vain to get her eyes checked when her vision started to blur because glasses would make her look old. I ended up taking care of her for 25 year of her life and the last 5 years she was in a nursing home because I could no longer lift her. We went through a lot together. She had 5 strokes, went completely blind, back surgery for a abcess wrapped around her spine and bowel and I had to pack it for 8 years until it healed, masectomy of one breast to cancer, neuropathy in her legs and feet, kidneys shutting down but luckily the hospital was able to get them back working, numerous bladder infections, broken ankle that would not heal, pnuemonia aspiration, and lastly at 79 years old she died of staff infection from the surgeries she had for ulcers.
You see I have personally seen what diabetes can do. My brother has diabetes also. I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2006 at the age of 46 when I had a reoccurence of cellulitis in my legs. The cellulitis I got from working during Hurricane Katrina. In June 2009 I was hospitalized again, they took me off the medication because I was able to manage my diabetes by diet alone. I couldn't get an appointment with my endocrinologist. This year, I kept getting a low grade fever, sweating, skin feeling hot, and was feeling tired, I though I was going through menopause. I went to my family doctor and asked for lab work to be done. I had a bladder infection and my glucose level was 131. I asked my family doctor to give me a reference for an endocrinologist. I went to the endocrinologist who put me back on the metformin and he added byetta. My meter is showing my glucose level is back down to between 89 and 109.
At work, I have deputies under me that are diabetic and I seem to be the diabetes educator. Their glucose levels are in the 200's and 300's. My glucose level has only been in the low 100's. I do a lot of research on the internet and pass this information on to them. Each one of them has not recieved any information on diet planning, food exchange, or carb counting their endocrinologist. I noticed this to be the trend when I went to this latest endocrinologist that I did not get any type of diet or menu planning information. At least I had been using the information from 2006 and this has been helpful to pass on. I also pass on information I get from the internet and the booklets I get mailed to me.
This is the reason I joined, to get information for myself and also to pass on to others. I think we should all do this. I told one deputy, that if you have diabetes then your children are daibetic also and that the children will follow by your example of how to properly eat and live.
