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Posted on 03/24/2002 11:33:16 PM PST by Snow Bunny
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It's the new second district. Incumbant Kennedy (R) will take on incumbant Luther (D). It goes from Stillwater, across the top of the suburban metro to the western suburbs. The new sixth will have a strong Repub in John Kline, who barely lost in the old sixth last go-round.
Have a GREAT day!!!!
Hello everyone! I'm back. Our internet service has been down for 4 days now. Today is the first time since last friday I have had internet service. Please don't think I have been ignoring you. I have not. Oh how fustrating it is not to have internet service, and no Free Republic. I hope I will be able to Freep today, without any problems. Hope everyone is having a great day.
Have to laugh at this, because when you MUST have 'em to survive, they are nothing!
Twenty-eight years ago I developed very brittle (frequent extremes, high and low) insulin-dependent diabetes, the current Game Plan two types of synthetic insulin.
They cannot be given together - one is twice a day at 12-hr intervals; the other according
to a sliding scale before meals and at bedtime.
That adds up to SIX injections every day - and more if the blood glucose is soaring.
The high pain threshold I've always had is invaluable - they truly are nothing more to me
than a gentle flick of the finger on the skin would be to you.
It is mind over matter - life is a precious thing!
Sixteen years ago kidney complications led them to state I would be buried in less than a year;
more than likely, 4-5 months.
They underestimated a stubborn Irish/German/Scotish/English God-loving MARINE! LOL
I sure am glad your here, that is really frustrating to have computer problems.
((( hug )))
The litle bear might like some hot chocolate, some drink coffee but then they start running around like crazy. hahahaha
Have really great day my friend.
Good morning Bunny. Well, we haven't done it yet, and this is Minnesota, but it looks pretty good right now.
Guess what? I have this girlfriend from California I met when we used to work together in the '80's. We had kept in touch thur out the years. When we moved to New Jersey we lost contact. I thought she was either mad at me or she had moved away or something. Well, yesterday, I got a postcard from her. She was in the area, and long story made short, she was here yesterday. We visited all afternoon, giggled and and caught up with eachother. Seems her home burned down and so did all her addresses. When I sent her a Christmas card this year, she got my new address and phone number. It was good to see her.
What am I to say, I feel helpless. Someday, a cure? One would never know unless you spoke of it. My family has a history of diabetes too and I monitor myself.
Keep fighting the long fight.
Maybe they should have asked the Creator about the timing.....He is the One who determines that.
Since I had worked before as the only help for a GP, I knew the hardest thing a physician
had to do was give bad news to a patient; especially one he'd had only two months.
When he got to the part of "All I can do is hold your hand while you go down the tubes," I interrupted him to tell him it was all right - I knew The Great Physician - and Whose Timetable is is!!
He was disbelieving, but I meant it, seeing ANY time left allowed me to tell loved ones and friends things that needed saying.
The funny thing was as a Department Secretary in a major hospital (Greensboro, NC), I interacted literally with all staff and most physicians, having coffee privileges in the Physician Lounge.
Word of the diagnosis and prognosis circulated throughout the grapevine, and they waited for me to decline and become depressed - HA!
I bounced along those corridors for nine more years, in their professional faces, demonstrating Who is in charge of all things!
He finally put His sheep out to pasture, and I found the grazing land of Free Republic!
I am blessed, sixteen years later still essentially the same so far as kidney function is concerned.
To Him goes the Praise and Glory!
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