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Carol,

AT times there is a lot of talk on this list. I will let you know that I

found out I was a diabetic 16 years ago then a year later lost my sight due

to it so ust have had it a long time before that. I first was on insulin but

then started watching my diet and exercising I only took a few units per day

so rather than having to learn how to fill the syringe, etc. I asked the

doctor to put me on oral medication. I still use 2.5 miligrams of glucotrol

every morning. my last A1C was 6.3.

Dean

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Carol,

yes there is usually allot of talking on this list! I don't do much of the

talking, I am still learning from the group! Which I much appreciate! I

sent in recipes, because it was requested of me to do so! This is my way of

contributing to the list, since my knowledge of Diabetes and all of it's

consequences are still in the infant stage!

I am a type 2.

Yes, I am employed as a rehabilitation teacher, and have been for 34 years!

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I am a type 1 diabetic I have been for 40 years. I lost a good deal of my vision

after having this condition for 34 years.. I was once married and now have 2

grown children.I cannot seem to find a job. UI live in a really small town and

public transportation is a nightmare. Has anyone found any way around the public

transportation issue?

Debbie

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Carol,

AT times there is a lot of talk on this list. I will let you know that I

found out I was a diabetic 16 years ago then a year later lost my sight due

to it so ust have had it a long time before that. I first was on insulin but

then started watching my diet and exercising I only took a few units per day

so rather than having to learn how to fill the syringe, etc. I asked the

doctor to put me on oral medication. I still use 2.5 miligrams of glucotrol

every morning. my last A1C was 6.3.

Dean

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I am a type 1 diabetic I have been for 40 years. I lost a good deal of my

vision after having this condition for 34 years.. I was once married and now

have 2 grown children.I cannot seem to find a job.

II live in a really small town and public transportation is a nightmare. Has

anyone found any way around the public transportation issue?

Debbie

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How long have you been without your vision?

There is a public transportation system here called ACT I'm not sure what it

stands for and when I first lost my vision I started to ride this bus. I found

it to be very slow and because of the slowness I ended up have more problems

insulin reactions than I ever had.I know all that stuff about taking food with

you but I don't really have the money for convience food. So now there is a

senior citizens bus I ride but it doesn't go out of this little city and since I

am 49 everyone else is much older than me.

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, Thank you for saying what I was thinking.

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How do you use an insukin pump without vision? Does your wife help you?

I was diagnosed in 1967 at age 10. i take lantus everday in the morning and

novolog as needed with an insulin pen.

I thought about an insulin pump but reconsidered because I don;t care to have

needles stuck in my belly day after day. I also worried about infection.

I can still see but I can't identify things unless I get right on top of them.I

mow my own yard and my neighbors, take care of my house, and am attempting to

take online classes for a bachelors degree in liberal arts. I hope some day to

be a writer.

The thing that really gets to me about vision loss is the way people treat you

so I don't mention it unless I am asked. I don't use a cane or a guide dog or

anything like that I don't really need to I do pretty good but I get awful

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I have been without my sight since the age of 13, nothing to do with

Diabetes!

Are you able to get around on your own? Do you need mobility lessons? If,

so, is there a rehab facility near you?

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hi debbie, i know exactly what you are saying. i too have been diabetic for

forty years and blind for four years this november. i woke up blind with no

signs of this going to happen. i have found my seeing friends had a very

difficult time to adjust, most of them scattered. they said they were

shocked to see this could happen to such an active person. and yes i can

relate to your problem. you are totally dependent on others to help you.

things like getting groceries, going to a social event are major problems.

do you have any sight at all?

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dannie, do you have a dog?

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I can get around just fine without help except at night. I never go ut so it

isn't a problem. I did go to a rehab place at first but they weren't very good

so I quit. My issues are finances and transportation. Finding a job with vision

this bad is not something employers want to deal with. The last job I had I

couldn't keep for very long because I couldn't drive.

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Debbie, how do you keep your sanity?

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That's why I joined this site. I sometimes feel like I am going crazy.

It's nice to have people to talk to.

Debbie

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Hi Debbie,

I use a device called a Count-a-Dose to measure my insulin. I mix insulins

and it works great! I have been using it for 15 years and love the

independence it gives me. You can get them from Independent Living Aids

catalogue in the States and from the National Federation for the Blind.

Ruth

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How do you use an insukin pump without vision? Does your wife help you?

I was diagnosed in 1967 at age 10. i take lantus everday in the morning and

novolog as needed with an insulin pen.

I thought about an insulin pump but reconsidered because I don;t care to

have needles stuck in my belly day after day. I also worried about

infection.

I can still see but I can't identify things unless I get right on top of

them.I mow my own yard and my neighbors, take care of my house, and am

attempting to take online classes for a bachelors degree in liberal arts. I

hope some day to be a writer.

The thing that really gets to me about vision loss is the way people treat

you so I don't mention it unless I am asked. I don't use a cane or a guide

dog or anything like that I don't really need to I do pretty good but I get

awful lonely.

Debbie

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I do have a question about a diabetic diet. Has anyone on here ever tried a low

carb diet to control blood sugar levels?

Debbie

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Hi Debbie,

The way to get people to talk about things when the list is quiet is to do

what you just did and post a message. Just because one conversation is going on

or a person is posting one thing like recipies doesn't mean you can't start

another thread if there's something you'd like to discuss. If you don't post it

no one has any way of knowing you'd like to talk about it. Welcome to the list.

Jen

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Debbie, oh boy can I relate to your situation. I have a brother that spoke

to me for the first time since before I was blind, because he could not get

a handle on it, smile. he is healthy but he cant get a handle on my

blindness? I don't get it. I hope nothing ever happs to him.

I was a widow at the time it happened. I fell out of bed and hit my head.

and was overmedicated by a doctor to one and half to two years that brought

this all on. the over medication causes bleeding ulcers. I lost six pints of

blood and my organs were shutting down. the blood left the eyes to save the

brain. I woke blind. for the first year I could pick up a bit of a shadow if

the light hit it right but now it is total darkness.

but on the bright side I met a grate guy after I lost my sight we married

and it was him that pushed it not me, smile.

he is a singer so we go out he sings, I listen. he does concerts, weddings,

funerals, sings at the hospitals, homes and the like.

I have two grown sons and grandmother of seven.

the one son is another who cant handle the blindness so I have seen him once

and the grandchildren twice. the other son is wonderful I see him and his

beautiful wife and four children all the time.

so life is strange. if I wrote a book I would never have thought of such

interesting twists.

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I think there are a few on here who eat low carb diets. I just count carbs but

don't limit them. But then, most people here have better control than I do.

Jen

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Hi Debbie,

The way to get people to talk about things when the list is quiet is to do

what you just did and post a message. Just because one conversation is going on

or a person is posting one thing like recipies doesn't mean you can't start

another thread if there's something you'd like to discuss. If you don't post it

no one has any way of knowing you'd like to talk about it. Welcome to the list.

Jen

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Hi Debbie,

I am using a low carb hi fiber diet right now. It does work to help me

control my sugars. I still have some problems though because I take

prednasone, a drug which makes insulin less effective, but I am finding it

is helping me.

Ruthm

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I do have a question about a diabetic diet. Has anyone on here ever tried a

low carb diet to control blood sugar levels?

Debbie

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Hi Debbie,

The way to get people to talk about things when the list is quiet is to do

what you just did and post a message. Just because one conversation is going

on or a person is posting one thing like recipies doesn't mean you can't

start another thread if there's something you'd like to discuss. If you

don't post it no one has any way of knowing you'd like to talk about it.

Welcome to the list.

Jen

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Ruth,

There is no specific agency and most jobs around here are in St. Louis Mo. which

is about an hour by car away from here about 2-3 hrs by bus

I have found with the transportation service around here you can often get

where you need to be on time but you may wait for hours to get back home I find

that very upseting.

Debbie

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I mmonitor my carbs only and am pretty accurate.Up here in Canada, and as

far as I understand, Americansdo it in other units.....is it only in

calories? Ken b

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ruth, no the meter has not arrived yet. can i ask you if once you have the

meter and i assume some strips come with the meter. is it any problem to get

more strips? thanks, karen

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Hi Debbie,

Have you looked into low vision aids? My vision is about 20/600 in my better eye

and about 20/1500 in the other and even at this level I can use low vision aids

successfully to see things that are small or farther away than I could without

them. Of course I don't only rely on those but magnifiers and CCTVs and

monoculars do help a lot of specific things. It may also help with being able to

do jobs (or convince employers that you can do them). I have been legally blind

since just after I was born so I grew up using these tools.

Jen

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I live in L.A County, so the public transportation is not so bad. I think

the bigger the city, the better the transportation. We also have a

paratrn=ansit system, that, if you qualify, lets you go anywhere in the

county for $1.80 or $2.70 (if going over 20miles), so transportation here is

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I am a type 1 diabetic I have been for 40 years. I lost a good deal of my

vision after having this condition for 34 years.. I was once married and now

have 2 grown children.I cannot seem to find a job. UI live in a really small

town and public transportation is a nightmare. Has anyone found any way

around the public transportation issue?

Debbie

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Carol,

AT times there is a lot of talk on this list. I will let you know that I

found out I was a diabetic 16 years ago then a year later lost my sight

due

to it so ust have had it a long time before that. I first was on insulin

but

then started watching my diet and exercising I only took a few units per

day

so rather than having to learn how to fill the syringe, etc. I asked the

doctor to put me on oral medication. I still use 2.5 miligrams of

glucotrol

every morning. my last A1C was 6.3.

Dean

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Ken,

Carbs and calories are two different things. Food is made up of three basic

things--carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Carbohydrates are the part of food that

is eventually converted to energy or blood sugar. Protein is also converted

eventually but much more slowly, and fat simply slows down how fast carbs or

protein are converted to blood sugar. Calories are a measure of how much energy

you will get from a certain food. There are 4 calories per gram of carb, 4

calories per gram of protein, and 9 calories per gram of fat. Carbs are used by

diabetics to control their blood sugar from spiking and/or know how much insulin

to take, and calories are used for weight loss--if you burn more calories than

you eat you lose weight, if you burn the same amount as you eat then your weight

remains stable, and if you eat more than you burn then you gain weight.

I hope that's not too confusing. The units for carbohyrates and calories used is

the same in both Canada and the US, but the way food is measured (ounces versus

grams, etc.) may differ just as inches/centimetres differ, it's just a different

way of measuring or weighing food.

Jen

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> going on or a person is posting one thing like recipies doesn't mean you

> can't start another thread if there's something you'd like to discuss. If

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Debbie,'Where do you live that the transportation is so limited?

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Where is it that you live and work that supplies volunteers to drive blind

diabetics? Also what about beside job related activities like shopping or

just plain entertainment having some kind of fun. Is there any way to do

this? In the six years since I have lost my vision I have not been able to

find any way to get anywhere without a big hassel or a cost way beyond what

I can afford.

Debbie

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