Let's Just Practice

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
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I decided I'm just going to practice being diabetic from now. The word "practice" implies I don't have it all figured out yet. I'm not a professional. I'm not perfect. I can mistakes -- in fact, it's expected that I'll make mistakes, because I'm just practi...

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Kim Benjet
Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 12:05 PM
I love the practice metaphor. I had my 9 year old read this blog and he too related to the idea. Thanks!- Kim

great post
justin
Friday, November 09, 2007 at 02:23 PM
it certainly takes the pressure off when you think of it that way. thanks for the new perspective!

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GingerVieira
Friday, November 09, 2007 at 03:23 PM

OHHH GOOOD! Mission accomplished :)

practice makes perfect....
amy mercer
Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 08:09 AM
This is great Ginger..I like thinking about managing our disease this way. My mom says the same thing about religion, that it's just like anything else, we have to practice, to go to your church consistentently, to get "better" at it. After 23 years of practice with diabetes, I'm still not perfect but I'll keep trying!

Let&#39;s Just Practice
Mark
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 09:05 AM

This is a great post and should be compulsory reading for medical practitioners.

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GingerVieira
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 10:56 AM

Thank you, Mark! I don't know how we'd go about reforming the way doctors approach their patients...but man it would certainly make a difference if we could!!!

Thank you for reading!
Ginger

Diabete's isn't Practice...
Anonymous
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM

...it is a disease that will kill you! LOL! It is a reality, and one I definitely do not like! Feeling guilty or innocent, and all that jazz isn't solving the problem of the reality. Doing the best you can to survive, and pushing the right people that have the best idea's for a real cure is the best solution.

Modern treatment of type one diabetes is BS in my opinion, docs have no clue to reality, nor do a lot of patients. I was a prime example as a dumb patient in my youth. I was fooled by ADA that a cure would happen in 10 years, so I didn't give a damn about all the worry on bg control and such. In ten years according to the "experts" I would be cured!

Well, 35 years later, what has the ADA done? Made a fortune off of my misfortune, served up all kinds of treatment idea's that have changed radically over the years, and none of them solve the reality of diabetes, just treat the dissease.

I don't like "treatment", I want a cure, period. Control of diabetes is all a shame, no matter what people do, over time diabetes damages the body. Swings from low to high bg's and back can do damage. The "see saw" effect in my opinion does more damage than high or low by themselves. Docs are always saying high's cause damage, that is bull shit. They don't look at the reality of diabetes, they only follow what pharmacy research wants them to believe. Reality and what a ccompany marketing drugs wants doctors to believe are two different roads.

People with diabetes are on a road that is not practice. Diabetes is a very serious disease that will do stuff to a human physically and mentally that no other form of "torture" in life can follow. The best way to deal with diabetes in my opinion is to hit it in the head with a two by four head on, don't mess with it.

Diabetes is a real "Dragon" and to survive takes hitting it with the best you can gather up in weapons, and do the best you can and face it with responsibility, vigilence, and most important of all endurance because the disease is a ride that is not normal if you have type one. The "dragon diabetes" will kill you if it can get the chance to do it, and it never goes away, and there is no day it will not fight you.

Diabetes is not practice, it is a war that never ends. Some days you win battles with it, some days you loose, but it definitely is not practice at all.

Dwight J. Emery

Type One Diabetes since 1974, 35 years

re: Diabete's isn't Practice...
Anonymous
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 03:47 PM

Ginger and other type ones,

Get an insulin pump if you want to survive longer with 24 hour bg monitoring. They cost a fortune, but in the long run should add a few more years to the life you have with out things like I've experienced. (Complications from hell itself).

I've been thru hemodialysis, I'm on PD now and hemo is the worse watching people with type one who loose limbs, loose mental capacity, watched a young man who was 35 get a stroke from diabetes. He then because of loss of kidney function was sitting in his home in filth, his wife did nothing for him, so his mother finally came and took him out of that mess to get him health treatment and a decent way to survive. A smart man who had an excellent job before his stroke and excellent insurance.

I've watched ladies with legs sawn off have to have tubes to feed them while on treatment in hemodialysis. I've watched horror and had good friends die because diabetes took them. Diabetes is not practice at all.

My advice if any of you are really serious about surviving is fight to get the best damn tools you can to do the job, and use them. Otherwise, messing with shot therapy and all the other crap isn't going to add time. Only the best solutions available will truly keep a person healthy longer.

No treatment is all that great, but insulin therapy with shots and Lantus and Novalog suck rocks. I tested that crap Lantus for the German's at Duke University and they do not follow research protocol correctly in my opinion and make up lies for unexpected low's in bg's that are not accountable and people with diabetes should be aware that things a re not as "rosy" as you want to imagine. Get rid of "imagine" and face reality. Diabetes is not a game, it "F•••"s people over and does damage I wish all of you could see the damage before you have to experience the reality of it. I wish my eyes had camera's connected to a hard drive so all the things I've seen would register in reality for all lf you who think diabetes is an easy "road" to tread.

The best treatment I know isn't good enough. But what is "best"?

If I was you guys and gals who have just started with type one, I'd invest in an insulin pump with 24 hour bg monitoring and I'd make my insurance pay for it with a lawyer if necessary. They are expensive, but in the long run will add some years to your life if you really value it a lot. If you do, do the best. Don't monekey around with "practice".

Survive with a sledge hammer, or battle ax and hit the dragon "Diabetes" in the head. Keep it down so you survive longer. Put on the best armor, and don't act like a very flower I know of called "Pussy Willow's". Act like a damn stone - hard as a rock - diamond even - ready to fight a real war of "pressure".

Survive. Be the last one standing and don't let DIABETES win the war. Diabetes will crush you, so be the diamond and show it up. Give it a black eye, don't let Diabetes win the day any day. Be as ruthless to diabetes as it is to human flesh.

WAR on DIABETES is my motto, and it definitely is very REAL.

There is never a day of PRACTICE. That is bull shit. Medical Industry wants people to believe lies so the market of 'diabetic sheep" for the slaughter doesn't dry up!

You are in a WAR with DIABETES.

STAND and FIGHT. And KNOW who is really on your side, and use them, not the WOLVES who act like they are for your survival when they profit from your ill health.

Wake up and realize diabetes type one is a WAR all the time and fight it with the best you can gather in strength and fortitude and endurance for years to come.

Dwight J. Emery

Type One since 1974, 35 years