Posted on 01/19/2013 3:23:13 PM PST by blam
“If I were to bite you, you’d go septic and it would be a fairly merciful and relatively quick, though painful death. :O)”
That’s one way to deal with it! LOL!
We dug hard for years, trying to find a way to manage my son if the SHTF. With our knowledge base, we could buy him 6-12 months and that’s the limit.
My mom would do a bit better and she’s already made preparations with a butcher shop to trade for her hormones, but (again) at best it would be a stop-gap.
For us older folk, we’re grateful for what modern medicine has given ups, but the kid...
What really sucks is that he was raised to be a real man. We bought 8 acres for him to tear up and I let him learn everything. He knows every weapon, how to fix just about anything, is the only human being that I personally know who can reliably start a fire with twigs and rocks, spends his spare time studying warfare tactics for fun. He really wanted to be a soldier and this disease killed that dream.
On top of it all, he’s just a nice guy.
Of all people, he’d be one of the most valuable assets if things got rough. And he’d be one of the first to go.
Still praying for a cure.
Great minds think alike! #;>)
I’m praying that the “S” doesn’t hit “TF”. - I can testify to anyone that the soldier’s life is hard, even after the guns cease firing. My daddy was a soldier, combat veteran in WWII; was shell shocked even into his old age. Had flashbacks to a particularly bad battle in Italy even after he was in his late seventies. So scarred and such a strain on him and on us. - That being said; it was necessary, he was necessary in that struggle - to that task, to that burden. - I also hope and pray your son will be cured of the diabetes. For now, husband and I are fighting it tooth and nail so he won’t have to start drugs; so far, so good. The diet thing is a real challenge, the temptation to eat stuff he shouldn’t is always there and sometimes he falls.
Ping a ding
The diet thing does work for Type 2. That runs rampant in our family as well and I was a ‘pre-diabetic’ a few years ago myself. My doctor put me on a ZERO carb diet for six months, then gradually brought me up to 45g a day for a couple of years. I lost 25 pounds rather quickly and my blood sugars dropped from an average of 185 to 100 on the nose.
My son’s disease is completely different. I wish they didn’t call even it ‘diabetes’ because it’s not the same thing. Type 1 primarily begins in childhood and it’s an autoimmune disease. Their bodies produce no insulin at all. Even without eating a single gram of carbs, their blood sugars will spike. It’s not caused by diet. (I know a friend of a friend who’s baby was diagnosed at six weeks old with type 1.) It’s caused by their own bodies attacking their Islet cells.
Type 2’s are *usually* (but not always) overweight and older at diagnosis. Type 1’s are usually diagnosed young and thinner. (My son was nine years old. My neighbor’s daughter was four and her son was eleven.)
You may already know all this, but I’m putting it out there because I’ve gotten some PM’s from people helpfully suggesting that my son can be ‘cured’ with a Type 2 diet, so I thought I’d add this info to the conversation.
Type 2 is treatable with diet because it’s caused by the body’s cells not responding to insulin - they have lots of insulin. Type 1’s don’t have any insulin to begin with.
And I agree with you, I pray that the S doesn’t hit the fan either!
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