tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post5080106902164362542..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: "DIABETES FOR DUMMIES" IS FOR ME!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-5581949697461888912011-07-28T22:59:25.425-06:002011-07-28T22:59:25.425-06:00I have been a nurse for 15 years. It breaks my he...I have been a nurse for 15 years. It breaks my heart to hear that the nurses you have come across are as terrible as the drs (although I have seen the same with my co-workers). Whenever i can, i discuss education with the patients under my care (usually admitted for complications from diabetes). I am trying to start teaching community ed classes so that I can help prevent instead of trying to fix a complication (much harder!). I can't believe how many patients don't understand about their diabetes, and yet, if so many people don't "get" it, then logic dictates it is probably the education and not the people. <br />I browsed your site because I want to know what the most commonly misunderstood topics are. My opinion is that people are so overwhelmed by the diagnosis, that the info flies at them, over them, around them and they are helpless in the middle of a maelstrom of information they don't know how to process. <br />I know my patients are not stupid. I agree that most information can be made to be so basic as to be almost meaningless. My approach tends to be more towards comparisons and analogies (glucose is "money" to the body; insulin is the bank clerk who 'deposits' the glucose/money in the cells). How many people have had a time in their life where they couldn't put money in the bank and risked paying fines or overdrafts because the money isn't where it is supposed to be. Mismanaged diabetes can have similar consequences on the body as overdrafts and fines can have on a bank account. This kind of comparison teaching seems to reach my patients well and I get told repeatedly I need to be teaching patients BEFORE they need to be hospitalized. I am only reaching the smallest fraction of the people who might benefit from my type of explanations.<br />I'd love feedback from diabetics if this kind of teaching would be better processed. This is just one example of the analogous teaching I do.annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754549849418298400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-91224423635484217352009-10-04T06:28:20.359-06:002009-10-04T06:28:20.359-06:00Very beneficial information. I was trying to lear...Very beneficial information. I was trying to learn about diabetes by visiting Wikipedia, but it was too much like a textbook. Now if I or anyone close to me is diagnosed, I know exactly where to turn!<br /><br />Thank you, and as we say here in France, bon courage!Muddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04842531684926537903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-26432138458570078242007-04-25T04:46:00.000-06:002007-04-25T04:46:00.000-06:00Thanks, Marilyn. I'm finding that Aussies are muc...Thanks, Marilyn. I'm finding that Aussies are much better about diabetes and other disconcerting stuff. I found my dumbbells the other day and a little routine for using them, so we'll see what that does. Maybe my muscles will revive!<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-31427222535880582972007-04-25T02:45:00.000-06:002007-04-25T02:45:00.000-06:00Thank you for sharing your experiences in your bat...Thank you for sharing your experiences in your battle with Type 2 diabetes. You have my sympathy completely.<BR/>I have had type 2 diabetes at least 7 years and often have found myself swinging between denial and anger about it.<BR/>Since diagnosis I lost 22 pounds weight partly because I moved to live with my Mom on the side of a big hill on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia.<BR/>For the last 6 months I have been participating in a wonderful research study supervised by Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh,MD. It is called the Graded Resistance Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes in Older Adults Study. My feelings about my diabetes have changed a bit since I started helping with the reseach. It is a discipline. Fortunately there is no 'dietary intervention' such as you have been suffering from. But, there is a lot of hard work lifting weights at a local gymnasium 3 times every week except on public holidays. My main adjustment has been that I have to eat more breakfast before exercising otherwise I go hypoglycemic afterwards.<BR/>I have spent hours today reading your blog which I find gargantuan but so enjoyable I wanted to share with you too.<BR/>Thank you so much,<BR/>Marilyn<BR/>marina59@optusnet.com.auAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-9995262483744585442007-04-01T23:26:00.000-06:002007-04-01T23:26:00.000-06:00Thanks for the kind words about my book. If you w...Thanks for the kind words about my book. If you want more of the same, go to my Web site www.drrubin.com. BTW, that is the current edition of the book. I update it about every 4 years unless there is something truly earthshaking in between.<BR/><BR/>Dr. RubinDrRubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11594488491065604326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-66728635203303477222007-03-27T05:02:00.000-06:002007-03-27T05:02:00.000-06:00My niece, who had hand surgery that was not healin...My niece, who had hand surgery that was not healing well at all, took her physical therapist along with her to her doctor's appointment. The man usually was patronizing, talked too fast, and used terms my niece didn't understand. But with the therapist there, though she nevere said a word, he was much more considerate and the therapist, afterwards, could explain in a clear way.<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-35331135667225122442007-03-27T02:13:00.000-06:002007-03-27T02:13:00.000-06:00I share your frustration with the obtuseness of ma...I share your frustration with the obtuseness of many in the medical profession, but I guess a lot of people are so intimidated that they stay silent and just hope for the best. Nowadays, whenever I have to visit a doctor, I write a list of symptoms and a list of questions - just to make sure I don't forget anything. Of course, I don't always remember to take the list with me...Jake Allsophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18352337319705848623noreply@blogger.com