Oh no! I got Die of Betes!
Good Afternoon, Evening, and Morning Steemit crew.
I had a different photo that I wanted to take, and use from my journal when I was a little guy - it seems the journal is at my parents home, and I don't care to collect it just now for this post.
The SUPER handsome young guy in the photo there is me at my fifth birthday. I thought this was a decent picture, because it was at the age of five that I want to tell you about sorta kinda.
A handful of months after this photo, I received a flu shot. Very soon afterwards I got the flu, and was very sick for about a week. After the flu symptoms passed, something was still very wrong with me.
Because of the fact that my darling, wife @elfmyselfandi are having our own little mini-elf we were speaking with my parents, sister, brother-in-law and some other friends about potty training. It came up that I was house broken (haha) at quite an early age. Mom says with pride 18 months is how old I was.
Now why did you bring this up Brock?
At five and a half years old I started peeing the bed. Yep, no pride here.
My blood sugar was high, because my pancreas stopped producing insulin in the amount it had been previously. Side effects of this are the need to urinate more to try to "get out the sugar" but actually, it's because there's protein and keytones in the urine, that make you urinate much more frequently - because it feels like fire inside of you.
My folks knew there was something wrong, and so they took me to the doc. They poked my finger, made it bleed and took a sample of the blood. Then they said they needed more blood, and that I needed to go to the hospital. The next day I STILL remember running away from everyone at the hospital because the "jerk face" doctor was trying to stab me with his needle, and: "if he wants to do that, I'll poke it right in his eye!"
I feel like a douche saying it, but I actually get a little choked up writing this now for some reason..
SO anyway, age five and a half - I'm diagnosed as a type 1, or "juvenile" diabetic.
I have nearly thirty years of ramblings to go over about this, and so I will try my best to keep this as an introduction to my diabetes, I'll try to make specific posts pertaining to the illness in the future.
I am yet to search the Steemit community to see if anyone else has written about diabetes, I suspect that someone has as it's such a common disease. I feel this is a wonderful venue to discuss these things. I believe that in doing so we have the ability to do a great many things that the world for the most part is not doing FOR US. We can share truthful information, from real diabetics (you WILL NOT READ HERE that garlic or cinnamon will cure you. It won't). I believe that with the right people and resources that we ought to be able to exchange steem for supplies that are required for a diabetic to live (still working on this idea, and welcome any help). Also I believe that having a network of people that are screwed up just like me, may help to keep people motivated to be less screwed up, or at least screwed up in a contained manageable way.
Like I said before, there's a hundred things I'm tempted to write about right now, but I'd like for this to be the sound board for all of you.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions: these are not requested now, but REQUIRED now for this post to be of any value. I have given you little to no information of value in this post with the exception of the little bit about the vaccination.
I have been educated on diabetes for 29 years now. I am also employed in the medical field, and have a great number of friends and colleagues that are also.
Lets make something special here for you dieofbetes peoples okay?
I have a friend who contracted Type 1 diabetes as an adult after a nasty infection screwed up his immune system and pancreas. I have cut my sugar consumption in an effort to avoid the Type 2 that runs in my family.
Type 1 is not considered to be passed by genetics, but type two can definitely have a higher risk if it runs in the family. Race and gender have an impact on a persons chances also.
You make a good choice to reduce your sugar intake: but isn't this the case with all diabetes prevention and management: its a good idea weather you have diabetes, or a risk of diabetes, or neither - they're simply healthy decisions that everyone can benefit from.
So there's nothing to do for type 1? What about type 2? Is there something other than insulin?
For the most part, the world accepts that there's nothing besides monitoring and administering drugs that can be done for type 1 diabetics. Specifically, the drugs that are available for type 1 diabetics is insulin, and there are about a dozen main stream types. (pulled that number from my back end, but I suspect it's around there)
Type 2 diabetics are told that it's a combo of activity, diet, pills and/or insulin. Type 2 is typically onset later in a persons life, and is often, but not always relative to body weight and diet issues.
There's also gestational diabetes, where broads that are knocked up get diabetes (lately I've had this need to take my verbal hijab off)...
For ladies that are so unlucky to get gestational diabetes, it is statistic to say that they become much more likely to become type 2 diabetic later in life.
I truly believe, and am in the process of debating with several endocrinologists (diabetes specialist doctors) that there should be no difference between type 1 and 2 and that with an appropriate system in place most people would be able to eliminate the affects and symptoms of diabetes, this would depend on our system not paying huge bucks to the drug companies and pumping man made hormones into their patients - but rather encouraging the body to continue making those hormones itself. I WILL write more about this, but would like to have my next appointment with the one endocrinologist at least once more before I do. If he, or anyone can prove me WRONG, then I'll eat my words. If I write about it first, then I'd be eating a lot more of em.
I believe that with awareness of people like you, and I, and your neighbor, and the other guy down the street - we could save people a whole lot of pain by just trying to let the body work itself out, the way it's intended. I really want to reach the diabetes community, because they are likely to know more people in immediate need.
There's a lot of information out there, and in my experience it's not being accurately or effectively distributed to people here in Canada. The folks I know in your neighborhood are less aware. I don't hold this against them, but hope to help them. I was so super blessed to have parents that took great care of me regardless of the self sacrifice that it required at times - they also ensured that I learned and was educated on the things I needed to be able to live a health life as a diabetic. I hope to share with people the knowledge I've gained, and that others have also - so that perhaps I can one day meet the guy who's searching for answers, just like my Dad was when I was diagnosed with diabetes.
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS than just insulin. There's a supplement that I swear by, but I need to properly display the info that I gathered on it about a dozen years back.
Everyone's situation is different. This needs to be appreciated when talking with everyone - specifically when it comes to health issues ie: diabetes, tmj disorder, depression, vertigo - whatever!
Are you on Facebook? I know a group that MAY be useful to you. Not totally sure, but it's worth a shot.
Afaik, you're on the right path. I've heard tell of folks being able to get off many kinds of meds with hard work and strict diet commitment. Farming provides both of those :)
Reject the verbal hijab. The more I listen to Jordan Peterson, the more I learn about the fire situation you guys are in up there.
Indeed farming does provide very well in those ways. Our winter is a little tougher on the body here I'd say. That being said a stationary bike is pretty attainable for most people in climates with snow... haha
I am on facebox, I'll check it out if you send it my way! I'm brock all day long. But I'm one of just a few Brock Friesens. I'm very rarely on fb, of course the phone is hooked up and so if I get a message, it comes to me.
I do believe that the university of alberta recently rejected Dr. Petersons plan to hold a lecture in their buildings..? I recall hearing about it not long ago - I could be mistaken. I don't ever, EVER pull punches. ;)
Sent you a friend request :)
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