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\"\"I am a retired educator from the City\u2019s Public School System.\u00a0 For 35 years I enjoyed teaching and guiding my students.<\/span><\/p>\n

Diabetes is a funny disease.\u00a0 You can live with it but if you don’t manage it properly, it will make any other condition more life-threatening. I still hope to help people get control of their Diabetes and learn to live WITH it and not FOR it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, this\u00a0Diabetic Website.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My mother and my husband each suffered from Diabetes. I watched as diabetes magnified the other physical problems, they both had.\u00a0 I remember setting my alarm clock to wake me up every 2-4 hours to take their sugar levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

My mother’s condition was so bad, toward the end,\u00a0 that I had to take her sugar levels every 3-4 hours and then use an integral mathematical formula to determine the amount of insulin I should administer. In addition to diabetes, she would have little strokes, many unnoticed but each contributed to her death.\u00a0 Sleep again was not an option.<\/span><\/p>\n

My husband suffered from diabetes which soon became diabetes, Heart Disease, and <\/span>then Alzheimer\u2019s which meant I had to take his sugar level every 2-4 hours and had to react to the high and\/or the low sugar level. He lived a good 12 years after the onset of these diseases. Again, sleep was not an option.<\/span><\/p>\n

My son has Crohn\u2019s Disease and after suffering for almost 35 years from operations, colonoscopies, bowel obstructions, intravenous feedings, and many hospital stays, the doctors finally said that they did not expect him to live another 6 months.\u00a0 That was 7 years ago and he is still here.<\/span><\/p>\n

We all have our cross to bear. Be it Diabetes or Crohn\u2019s, Alzheimer or just a bad cold. No matter what life gives you, you must have \u201cFaith” that there is a power greater than each of us and you must remember that no matter what it is, \u201cIt Could Be Worse”.\u00a0 Because we are human beings, we can know that there are conditions <\/span>worse than the one we have.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is not a “Bowl of Cherries”, as the song goes.\u00a0 It is full of ups and downs that either lifts us up or push us down.<\/span><\/p>\n

I cannot give you a magic formula if you are diabetes or Crohn\u2019s or an Alzheimer patient. \u00a0I can tell you, \u00a0Look around you and you will surely find someone who has it harder than you.<\/span><\/p>\n

My family members and I had to learn to live, WITH our individual problems and not FOR our medical problem. I want you to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>I cried because I had no shoes until I met a\u00a0man who had no feet\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (Helen Keller)<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, we are haunted by the Corona 19 virus. Tell me how you are handling it. Do you believe that it is real? Do you wear masks? Do you Social Distance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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