We're not immortal

April 26, 2002

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Your personal response is about as right-on as it gets! :-)

Life is all about moderation. Overdo the fat, you clog your arteries.

Overdo the carbs your blood glucose goes sky high. Overdo the protein and

you're beating up your kidneys. Overdo the --- well, everyone gets the idea.

And try as we all might to be as healthy as possible, we all have to face

those Pearly Gates, some sooner, some later. If we try our best to behave

ourselves, we'll all hope for 'later'.

Something I learned from working as a floor nurse in my early hospital career

that put having diabetes in perspective......one of my patients was a 16 year

old boy that broke his neck playing football. He was permanently paralyzed

from his neck down. The majority of things most of us take for granted in

life, he would never be able to experience. Diabetes is a serious problem,

but in the 'big picture' of what can go wrong in life, it's pretty tame

compared to many other illnesses. That doesn't make it any easier to live

with at times, but with diet, medication, and exercise, we can pretty much

control our destiny to the greater extent.

Just something to think about when you have one of those 'woe is me' days we

all go through every once in a while. :-)

Bonnie

Insulin Jet Injectors

In a message dated 4/26/02 8:37:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> My own personal response to all this nonsense is somewhat different, and

> here it is...Everyone dies of something, and no one gets out of here alive.

> People who eat the best organic foods

> and live in the cleanest places still die of cancer. People who have the

> best lab reports, low cholesterol, low blood pressure, no apparent

> problems, can still die of heart attacks. We

> are not gods, we're not immortal, and we don't have all the answers.

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