| Diabetes is a disease with the potential to affect every system in the body. T1 or T2, our goal is to avoid these complications for as long as possible by maintaining as tight a control on our blood sugar levels as possible through diet and/or excercise and/or meds and regular medical f/u. There are no guarantees that we won't develop complications at some point. We control what variables we can control and the rest is up to God. I think money might make it easier to buy supplies, better food and medical care, but money is not going to make you complication-free...any more than money insuring you will live to be 100 or never develop cancer/heart attack or stroke.
If $$ was the solution to being complication-free, Luther Vandross and other "rich" people would still be alive today.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  | 
