[acb-diabetics] Good ThingsAbout Diabetes (Was:Re:Introducingmyself)

[Veronica Elsea]

A mandate is do this! Mentoring shows you how to accomplish 
something. You'd think the medical community would understand by now 
that teaching and guiding will do much better at accomplishing what 
each of us needs to do. Turning us all into criminals or listed as 
simply compliant or noncompliant just isn't a good model, especially 
since so many just hand out a pill, tell someone they're overweight, 
and home they go! It does take some time to work out a system for 
managing daily life with diabetes and changes and results don't 
happen in a few days. We all have different life styles; different 
learning styles; different relationships with our doctors and so on. 
I think treating diabetes should be given the proper sort of level of 
importance. To me that means working with each one of us to help us 
do the best each of us can. I've seen too much guilt get in the way 
of good control and I'm all for changing that. Truthfully, that's 
partly what inspired my CD. We all need laughter, a certain comfort 
level for living with who we are, knowing what is and then going from 
there. I'm not saying don't do the difficult stuff. But I'm sure 
saying don't do the difficult stuff alone. We all deserve to be 
treated with respect and some understanding. Then we make our choices 
and figure out how best to live quality lives.
Okay, off my soap box now. <grin.>
Veronica
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