Re: Probability of going on insulin...

January 17, 2000

Susie wrote:

>

> Another great post, . Your success is an inspiration to the rest of us

> .. and you are quite the motivator with your effective communications

> skills.

Thanks Susie,

Glad you're back... it's funny.. when I was diagnosed, I thought it was the end

of the world (for me). Looking back I now think it was my greatest triumph.

So how's AZ in the wintertime.??

January 18, 2000

Susie,

And you have an interesting story too...

So you were here in Albuquerque.? Been up the tram to Sandia Crest.?

Susie wrote:

An enduring truth I learned from my experience is how very much our destiny

> is in our own hands. We are all very powerful creatures. Six or seven years

> ago, I figured I was doomed - and I felt so sick I didn't much want to live

> anyway. I had many health complications, no insurance, no job, and dwindling

> resources. A year or so ago, I was recovering from my second apparent heart

> attack, and plenty worried about keeping a roof over my head.

>

> Twenty years ago a sister of mine was in a wheelchair and in and out of the

> Mayo Clinic constantly for more surgery. Today she walks with a bounce in

> her gait. People can be handed " death sentences, " and if they are lucky and

> do the right things and believe in their own future, anything is possible.

>

> Regardless of which particular path any of us choose to successfully treat

> our health problems, that is the message we can deliver: That we may have

> it within ourselves to recover from just about anything. It is a message of

> hope and of strength.

>

> Rob and I live at 7000-feet elevation, in the White Mountains. It has been

> below zero here overnight more than once ... and yet today it was nearly 70.

> The sun is extremely bright ... the daily temp. fluctuations extreme. We

> were in Albuquerque again yesterday ... had a good Mexican dinner after

> finally retrieving our lost luggage, before driving 265 miles home.

>

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