Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 In a message dated 6/7/2004 3:37:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, timjones4866@... writes: > Well I have just joined and guess it's international but with mostly > US members. > > I am type 1 and was diagnosed 2 years ago. I hope the group will help > with some of my concernes. > > I lead a very active life working as a manager in a local electricity > distribution company in Barnstaple England. > > Hi Tom, welcome! I find it so amazing that people in their 40's are getting type 1. Things have chanced so much with diabetes through the years. I am a 58 year old, Mom to 6, wife to 1, grandmother to almost 7 ;-) I take care of my dh as a full time job, love the outdoors, camp (in an RV, no heroic measures here) swim for pleasure and exercise. I crochet when the tv is on, or read. TV does not hold my interest unless it is like CSI (crime scene investigation) or something that is just not fluff, a little to learn maybe. Love animal shows and travel scenarios. I am a type 2, who has been pretty sedentary since dh broke his back in 1985. Our blood pressures both went from 80/60 to 135/80 when that happened, our weights went up, and I sat by his hospital side for almost 3 years on a pretty regular basis. Praise God for Grandma and my older sons who took a lot of the responsibility on for my younger twins. Now you see, though much time is given to the family, we spend a lot of down time with Don's back and me trying to care for him and hold on to the last vestige of sanity! LOL Happy you are able to come and go and your diabetes does not seem to put the brakes on for you. Do you have an insulin pump? I hear so much about them, and feel it must be a release from the problems that plagued diabetics of the past and give them much more freedom. My husband uses a Medtronic pain pump, with an intrathecal catheter. It is a blessing that has given us much more freedom than in the 10 years of hideous pain before it was implanted. Now we just see the pain dr every month for a " fillup " . He still has some very bad spells and has had 6 strokes, so we count our selves lucky and blessed because we do get some time off for very good behavior! LOL Post as you will, we will be glad to throw any info you need your way. We have several type 1's here, and that does seem to have it's own set of differences. Wishing you a good week, hugs, Marilyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Hallelujah---I left for 4-5 hours---left internet on---and you all seem to be back---just missed all mail from 8:15 am to 4:00pm---Guess I'll have to check out the home site for the mail log....ROLF [alldiabeticinternational] Tim, welcome ;-) > In a message dated 6/7/2004 3:37:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, > timjones4866@... writes: > > > Well I have just joined and guess it's international but with mostly > > US members. > > > > I am type 1 and was diagnosed 2 years ago. I hope the group will help > > with some of my concernes. > > > > I lead a very active life working as a manager in a local electricity > > distribution company in Barnstaple England. > > > > Hi Tom, welcome! I find it so amazing that people in their 40's are getting > type 1. Things have chanced so much with diabetes through the years. I am a > 58 year old, Mom to 6, wife to 1, grandmother to almost 7 ;-) I take care of > my dh as a full time job, love the outdoors, camp (in an RV, no heroic > measures here) swim for pleasure and exercise. I crochet when the tv is on, or > read. TV does not hold my interest unless it is like CSI (crime scene > investigation) or something that is just not fluff, a little to learn maybe. Love animal > shows and travel scenarios. > I am a type 2, who has been pretty sedentary since dh broke his back in 1985. > Our blood pressures both went from 80/60 to 135/80 when that happened, our > weights went up, and I sat by his hospital side for almost 3 years on a pretty > regular basis. Praise God for Grandma and my older sons who took a lot of the > responsibility on for my younger twins. Now you see, though much time is > given to the family, we spend a lot of down time with Don's back and me trying to > care for him and hold on to the last vestige of sanity! LOL > Happy you are able to come and go and your diabetes does not seem to put the > brakes on for you. Do you have an insulin pump? I hear so much about them, > and feel it must be a release from the problems that plagued diabetics of the > past and give them much more freedom. My husband uses a Medtronic pain pump, > with an intrathecal catheter. It is a blessing that has given us much more > freedom than in the 10 years of hideous pain before it was implanted. Now we > just see the pain dr every month for a " fillup " . He still has some very bad > spells and has had 6 strokes, so we count our selves lucky and blessed because we > do get some time off for very good behavior! LOL > Post as you will, we will be glad to throw any info you need your way. We > have several type 1's here, and that does seem to have it's own set of > differences. Wishing you a good week, hugs, Marilyn > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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