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One of the members asked me why I havenot blogged about our group lately. I asked what happened thissummer and fall. He said many of the group traveled during thesummer and some had just recently returned the first part of October. Some of us had gotten together occasionally, but not regularly, asthere were not a lot of new things to occupy us as a group. Evennow, we have not had the entire group present.
Some of us are excited about the new study from Sweden that identifies a new marker for determiningdiabetes approximately ten years before diagnosis. True this needsfurther study, but may be a lead in the right direction. It meansnothing to those of us that already have type 2 diabetes, but if thiscan assist in making potential diabetes patients make lifestylechanges now and delay or even prevent diabetes - this is a goodthing. We will be watching for further research on this topic.
In addition to my having to take aforced writing vacation per my doctors to let my wrist heal, two ofthe group has had some illness and another has a family member withan illness that put the spouse in the hospital. This has caused usto be more careful and less likely to take time to get together. Some of have been exchanging emails of late attempting to figure outa convenient time after the holidays for all to get together andpossibly introduce three new members. I have the two women that Imet recently and Barry and Ben have a new friend as well. There maybe others that we haven't heard from yet.
Several of the members are quizzing meheavily about my peer mentoring experiences. Three of the group isasking if they could sit in on a session, see how I answer questions,and possibly consider doing something similar. We have talkedextensively about how I answer questions. I first told them that Ido not make suggestions in many areas unless it preface it with “youmust talk to your doctor.” I make sure the question is answeredwith talking with your doctor and suggest two or three possibilitiesto help guide the questions. I warned them about makingrecommendations that might sound like advising people to take acertain medication. I said that we cannot do this and this type ofadvice can create legal liabilities we don't need. I explained aboutone participant that was trying to get me to do just that. I alsosaid I would need to talk to the doctors and see if they were willingto have others sitting in. I said it could be beneficial having morethan one person relating experiences. They agreed I should getpermission first. We also are looking for a place to allow more thanone person since my office is not the most convenient.
Allen and Max have been on my case andin my face lately about being a turncoat and helping a type 1. Iknow this is good-natured as Allen lives three houses away from thenow 14 year-old young girl that I wrote about here. He did notrealize I knew them until one day this last summer when he saw mevisiting with the family. He came over and then Max who happens tolive directly across the alley saw us together and joined in. Theyall knew each other, but not that Lily had type 1 diabetes and herfamily did not know that Allen and Max were people with type 2diabetes. What was to have been a short visit from me concludedabout four hours later after the evening meal. We all had anenjoyable time and Lily had a great time teasing the three of usasking questions since we are all on insulin.
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