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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: diabetics in college
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 01:58:57 EST
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> I have type I (juvenile) diabetes, under moderately good control, and am

A tangentially related but hopefully enlightening story:

	(These are both adult onset diabetes, but I hope the moral is there)
	(If the descriptions seem short, its because I really shouldn't be
	 discussing patient histories, but I think the cause is good)

	I recently took a medical history of an elderly man with complications
related to diabetes of long standing. It was diagnosed in 1965.
	He is currently living at home, with his three sons, all in high
school, the oldest being 17.

	[OK, now do the arithmetic. He's had diabetes three years longer
than sons.]

	Anecdote 2: I recently sat in on a checkup of a 81 yr. old woman who had
been diagnosed as being diabetic in 1944 (40 years ago), and had been insulin
dependent for 15 years. Her complaint on that day was stiffness of the hip.

	My message: Keep up hope.  If its under control, you most likely will
have a long life ahead of you. Also, with Medical Science going at breakneck
pace, better ways of treating Diabetes might arise.
-- 
				Craig Werner
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		What do you expect?  Watermelons are out of season!