Posted on 05/26/2009 12:24:12 PM PDT by jessduntno
Every hour of every day, someone is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the most severe form of a disease that annually accounts for more than $100 billion in health care costs in the U.S. alone. Usually striking before the age of 30, type 1 diabetes takes a harsh toll on people. Not only will they be insulin-dependent for life, but devastating life-limiting and life-shortening complications such as blindness, amputation, heart disease and stroke, and kidney failure are an ever-present threat. Insulin is not a cure for the disease—it is merely life support.
Type 1 diabetes is destructive both to children and to childhood. Controlling the disease requires 24/7/365 vigilance and imposes a grueling regimen. It includes eating a carefully calculated diet, checking blood glucose levels several times each day (by lancing a finger) and insulin injections—as many as six per day—or delivery of insulin through a pump just to stay alive. It means children and families living by the clock, day and night, for the rest of their lives—lives that turn out to average about 15 years less than normal.
You can't outgrow type 1 diabetes. As JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore has said, "Diabetes is an all too personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or ten years from now—a time bomb affecting millions...one which must be defused." The only solution is a cure. That's why JDRF has a singular mission: to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research as soon as possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at jdrf.org ...
The JDRF is informative...
As a physician, I can tell you this is a non-issue, as it should be. Her opinions re the law should take her out, not type 1 diabetes.
got any Ludes?
“As a physician, I can tell you this is a non-issue, as it should be. Her opinions re the law should take her out, not type 1 diabetes.”
Why does this sound so grave, then? Are you saying that the complications are not as serious as they say?
That’s why JDRF has a singular mission: to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research as soon as possible.
I agree. This is not the point.
I agree, Since I’ve been one since I was 9 yo it does not effect my ability to think or do most anything. I just have an extra part time job of taking care of myself.
BTW, the side effects can be very minimal if it is tightly controlled. The wiorst I’ve faced in nearly 40 years was having to go throguh carpal tunnel and surgery for it.
The complications usually come from not taking care of yourself. You have to realize that that is the JD site and they are all about rasing money for research so must make it the worst possible scenerio to raise money. :)
Agreed,
Complications from Diabetes may indeed take her life one day, but to claim that makes her unfit to serve? Please, that’s laughable. Someone putting that up has to be a leftist nutjob as a balloon to make conservatives look like idiots.
This is a non issue, and anyone foolish enough to try to make it one, should be laughed out of the serious conversation, whether they be Liberal or Conservative.
Oppose her on her oppinions and actions not the fact she has to take insulin.
Since she is a liberal..it is to our advantage that she is diabetic and overweight. It is unlikely that she would be around as long as a younger health person.
Not wishing bad on her..just makes her more qualified if we must have a liberal judge.
When one has either type 1 or 2, and I have a friend’s mother just had minor surgery last week, whose has type 2, they say there is more preping needed before hand for surgery.
From a quality of life perspective, there are a thousand worse things that can happen to a child. It is true that insulin is no cure, but the lack of insulin is the problem. Carefully replacing the missing insulin is the key to avoiding or greatly delaying all the side affects listed. Actually, type 1 often tends to be less dangerous than type 2, since type 2 sufferers have usually done great damage to their bodies before they even know they have a problem. 10 years of blood sugar consistently over 400 is worse than a lifetime of peaks and valleys. There is no real reason that a child diagnosed with type 1 can't live a long healthy life. They just carry far more responsibility to make it happen than the rest of us. Many adults with problems haven't managed their blood sugar well for long periods before the problems surfaced.
I'm all for the work the JDRF is doing but their pitches for money are often a bit heartless, and sometimes outright BS.
I agree. Glad to hear you say it. I had no idea you are a physician. Health care is such an important issue today that it’s good to have someone here who knows the issues.
There was a young woman in my (former) office in Denver who was Type 1 and didn’t take good care of her sugar levels. She would occasionally pass out, usually from too low blood sugar.
Thank you. Since I have a niece who was diagnosed in very early childhood, I have some limited knowledge. I know there have been quite a few hospital runs and problems over the years and ongoing things. I have read that there are no problems that are significant, but I think the responses range from no biggie to it can be very serious.
My question is more about the tremendous toll that everyone claims takes on the individuals in the job and if there is not perhaps more difficulties for someone with a disease that, or so i thought, can be unpredictable v someone without it.
I never said there were no complications for Type1 diabetes, I said trying to argue its a reason to disqualify her is idiotic.
This woman has more than enough reasons to be fought on merits, trying to argue she is unfit to serve because she’s got diabetes? Sorry, but that’s idiotic.
High Stress Job? SCOTUS??? Picking and choosing the cases you will hear, Listening to arguments, asking questions and writing and researching opinions in a nice climate controlled environment at your own time and pace is not a high stress job.
Sure if it was 1789 and they were traveling the country in carriage to hold sessions etc I’d give you some concern, but the SCOTUS is not by any definition a “high stress” job. Other than the very rare emergency case, you know damned well what question is being put before you months before you take your seat, you and your staff have already researched and discussed the issue ad naseum for months.
You keep floating that stupid balloon for the left, and make all on the right look like doofus’ because that’s all you are doing with trying to argue this women is unfit because she has Type 1 diabetes.
This woman needs to be opposed based on her record, not on her ability to produce insulin.
FYI: See the NIH Accord study. Your sense of security is lethal. The metformin protocol et al increases mortality by 22% over the control group with uncontrolled high glucose. That treatment protocol does not even slow down the progression of disease. It simply gets you a false sense of security with lower glucose numbers. There are better strategies that work.
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