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Vicki M
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 01:50 PMre: Untitled Comment
LindainJapan
Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 07:45 AMDear Vicki,
Thanks for your quick, kind, and link filled comment. In a recent lifetime, were you a librarian?!
I see that you are a D2, so my question might not have been of such personal interest, but you generously found me all that info...thanks! I see that you often write to several people as generously as well. Wow! And you always end with "Keep in touch" or "Let us know..." and I wonder if people do get back to you? I wish I had the time to be as good a correspondent but until the end of the school year next month, I'm frantically busy. I wish you the very best with your own life with diabetes. I read somewhere that 6.0 on HbA1c really isn't to be considered safe any more, but I guess it all depends on your lab's norm range. Anyway I wish you and I both low numbers to fend off complications until a true cure is found. Fingers crossed...bloody frequently poked fingers, naturally.
Hugs, LindainJapan
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Vicki M
Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 01:28 PMHey Linda, thanks for writing back!
I don't always hear from folks I respond to, but occasionally I go back through posts and reread them. There was a posting in the allergy forum about garlic that I responded to with another posting I found from earlier in the year. When I checked it this week, it had 25 responses!! WOW! 12 or 15 people who all had an allergy to garlic who found each other. How special is that!??
take care of you and your fingers!!! 4 pokes a day does not make mine happy! :(Hope to hear more from you on the site when the school year is over. Till then,
Take care my friend!
Vicki M
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The Case for More Vitamin D
Hi Linda!
Wow what an incredible life you've had!! I did some looking around on the site, and David Mendosa had a posting back in March of 2006 talking about the Pancreatic islet cell transplants, and while this procedure helps the diabetes, you then must be responsible for taking the medications to prevent rejection of the transplant. You can read more about that in his posting located here.
Quoting loosely from David Mendosa's posting: "A woman named Deb had this procedure and now considers herself a former diabetic. She has written a book called 'Showdown with Diabetes.' In the book, Deb's physician, a man named David Sutherland writes that pancreatic transplants 'cannot cure diabetes.' "
As David says in his posting, there is no known cure for diabetes...yet. But there are strides being made every day to work towards a cure.
In the meantime, there are many resources here on healthcentral.com to help you deal with the challenges of living with diabetes. I am listing a few of them here.
Here is a link to the database that will give you useful information to will help you ask informative questions of your doctor. Included in the database are symptom information, treatments, medicine information and interactions.
This link will take you to the specific page that discusses the transplant options, pros and cons.
As always, you should consult your doctor before making any changes in your routine or treatment. The information located here can help you make those choices with your doctor.
Stay in touch and let us know how you're doing!
Vicki