The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[ezdays]

You want it in my doctors technical terminology? Until it's healed. The wound started off bigger than a baseball. Now it's a little bigger than a golf ball. Yep, diabetes is nothing to take lightly. Many people with type 2 think they're safe, that they won't have the kind of problems type 1 diabetics have and they can keep it under control with pills. Don't you believe it! I'm what's called type 2 severe. I'm a double amputee. I'm have to take pills AND two types of insulin every day. Ten units of Novolog insulin before meals and one hundred units of Lantus insulin before bed. Does that sound like no major problem? I have more problems than that. I have severe permanent nerve damage from the diabetes and childhood spinal meningitis. My mother suffered from hepatitis C since childhood and while I've never tested positive for it I'm labelled as a potential carrier. For those reasons I can't give blood or plasma and I can't be an organ donor though I don't know why anybody would want any of mine anyway. I could go on but I don't want to bore anybody.

In layman's terms, that's one helluva wound. :o I'm glad for you that it's doing better, and as I said, I hope you can get back to "normal" soon. No, either type of diabetes is nothing to be scoffed at. I know for a fact that there are quite a few people here that have type II, but I thought that only type I needed insulin. Your information is enlightening for sure, and a bit scary too. I doubt that anyone can consider any form of diabetes as not being a major problem, but as I said, you are indeed resilient and seem to bounce back, or at least roll with the punches. There's not much you can do to change things, but at least you keep going. I've seen people with fewer problems just sit in a corner and start sucking their thumbs. Another thing you point out is that many of these things are hereditary, that's why it's important to know your family history. Many of us can learn from what you just described.

BTW, I started out using 8" floppies and I still have a bunch of 5 1/4" and 3.5" ones with drives to read them if need be, although I doubt that I ever will. It boggles the mind, my first computer with a HD had 40 mB capacity and was took up two internal spaces (around 5" high), I just bought a one terabyte drive that fits in my pocket. Times have sure changes...