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From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: diabetics in college
Message-ID: <7598@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 03:28:28 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.7598
Posted: Tue Mar 26 03:28:28 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 01:33:24 EST
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Reply-To: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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In article <1151@reed.UUCP> thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) writes:
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>Hello, I have a new subject which I'm hoping you may have time to respond
>to:
>I have type I (juvenile) diabetes, under moderately good control, and am
>currently in my 3rd year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. A lot of
>people(non-medically trained, non-diabetics) here have called me "crazy"
>for having an educational/career goal (B.A. and, if things work out, grad.
>school in chemistry) since I am technically handicapped. 
....
>how one deals with telling professors, potential employers, etc. that one
>is NOT what is considered "normally healthy" and yes, that it CAN interfere
>with ability to perform, but that *I* think I'm worth the risk.
>
>						Ann Muir-Thomas
I'm not sure why you think you are handicapped, and why you think diabetes
will affect your performance. Is juvenile diabetes worse than other types?
My uncle was the first male diabetic in the US to receive insulin. My
grandfather was a doctor in Auburn, NY, and my uncle was about 14 when he
got diabetes. In those days you died from it, but my grandfather took him up
to Toronto where they were experimenting with insulin, had them "experiment"
on my uncle (his son) and it saved his life. He just died last year at the
age of 72 after a lifetime as a chemist. He graduated first in his class from 
Syracuse University, and although a cranky SOB, he was always smart as a 
whip. Again, I don't know what type of diabetes he had and what type you have,
but it is unclear to me that it should even come up in conversation with
professors, et al., unless you are, in fact, debilitated by it.

gary cottrell	(allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary  (UUCP)
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