Insulin Pump Users

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Dear Zack’s mom,

I forwarded the message from Joslin Clinic to another diabetes list and a mother
replied that she only knew a couple of JDs: one her brother who died (at 38 -
Type I @ with heart failure and 3 failed kidney transplants, and another
44-yr-old who’s been on dialysis for 10 years. She indicated her delight that I
have 15 months to go to hit 50 years and may receive a medal if I’m still
breathing.

Her 9-yr-old Bradley was diagnosed last month and she is devastated! Would you
please e-mail me so I can link you two up. Sounds like she needs lots of
encouragement.

At what age was Zack diagnosed?

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Thanks

Frank

We all have one thing in common, We are all diabetic and we are dealing with a
serious disease. Most of us are on an Insulin pump or thinking about getting
one. Please lets try to stick to the topic of Insulin Pumps, Diabetes and be
respectful to all members. Thank You

Frank

Hello, everyone -
I signed onto this list and read the following to be the guidelines and
rules to participate in the group.

Doesn’t this sound like if you have PERSONAL comments, they should be sent
to the person they are to PRIVATELY? I have read all of the postings today,
and no one has forced any of you to read them either, it is just that I
subscribed to this list to gather information, NOT to hear a lot of sarcasim
and member bashing.

Without being foolish, does ANYONE have ANYTHING to say about insulin pump
experiences?? It’s an IMPORTANT topic in my life right now….

Dawn

Jan-
You’re wonderful! What a joy you must be to those who
know you personally.

Janet

Who can erase any thoughts and/or memories - we may be forgetful at times, but
anything can trigger a past event. Our brains are marvelous computers. GIGO

John, do you remember your first love? Does that mean you still have a
*relationship*? I remember childhood playmates, school teachers, store owners,
etc., etc., but that does not mean I have a relationship with any of them. Mom
has not invited me to one of her family reunions for 18 years (I hear about them
through the grape vine). I could go on and on and on. But none of that is really
necessary.

I say Ignorance By Choice because her little girl was dying and all the
information was there - a few years ago when I said my bg is 43, she said, "Is
that low?" This after 4 decades. She has the attitude if you ask questions that
means you don’t know, and if you don’t know, you’re dumb.

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Jan,

It seems clear to me from your remarks that you were abused and neglected as a
child. This is perhaps the worst offense that anyone could possibly commit
against another person. Child abuse, sexual abuse and rape are pretty darned
evil, if you ask me. Anyone I know who has suffered any of these atrocities has
spent years in therapy dealing with the fallout. (And I’m quite frightened by
the number of people I know personally who have been the victim of these
crimes.) And none of these people would have said, in regard to the person who
abused them, "We have no relationship whatever now. I’m sorry I’ve been such a
disappointment to her." You clearly _do_ have a relationship with your mother in
your mind and thoughts, even if there is no further contact between you.

Yet you still say, "I call the attitude of my mom, ignorance by choice." It
seems to me that you still live with your mother every day, and perhaps worse,
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For anyone caring to read my rebuttal comparing diabetics to drug addicts from
the newspaper, it’s long, but I’ve retyped it here:

Julie Sellers, director of the Perinatal Exposure Prevention Project of the
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, stated in her Voice letter
June 3, concerning chemically-dependent pregnant women: "If we’re going to make
any progress with this population we need to recognize that they suffer from a
chronic disease not so different from diabetes or hypertension."

As a Type I juvenile diabetic for almost a half century, I want to take a loud
stand against being compared to a "druggie" harming her unborn baby.

There is a huge difference in chronic diabetes and self-inflicted addiction.
Everytime I stick a needle into myself (more than 14,000 injections, countless
lab tests, poking my own fingers 3-5 times a day, and wearing a needle 23-24
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My, how things change.

I went from age 11 1/2 (1950) to age 16 before I saw another young person with
diabetes. I had thought I was the only one in the world before that. Diabetic
camp cost $100 for one week — we couldn’t afford it but I was given $5 a week
allowance. If we had saved $2 a week I could have gone to camp. We had no such
thing as home blood testing - only urine which was 4 hours after the fact and
people have different *thresholds* of spilling sugar.

I heard (a few years ago) that the school was brought together as an assembly
and discussed the fact that I had diabetes (I missed many weeks because of the
coma) but it was not discussed with me. I was kind of shunned. When I went to
high school we didn’t tell the teachers. I did show my card to the biology
teacher when we studied db in class - he almost brought it up, then figured it
would embarass me and changed the subject.
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