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  • San Leandro, CA
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Hometown (where you come from):
San Leandro, CA
Do you have diabetes?
Yes
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Date diagnosed
April 1, 2005
Most recent A1C (Blood Glucose Average) Value
6.3
What glucose meter do you use?
N/A
Type of treatment you use
Oral, Diet and Exercise
What do you expect from TuDiabetes?
To connect with other T1D's & T2D's, we who are in the know
How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?
Serendipity
What do you do for a living?
Computer Systems Programmer/DBA - Notary Signing Agent
"WE CANNOT ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BY INTELLECT ALONE" :
Psychologist Carl Jung

"THE MIND IS LIKE AN ICEBERG, IT FLOATS WITH ONE-SEVENTH OF ITS BULK ABOVE WATER" : Psychologist Sigmund Freud

"IF YOU REALIZED HOW POWERFUL YOUR THOUGHTS ARE, YOU WOULD NEVER HOLD ONTO A NEGATIVE THOUGHT. I DON'T EAT JUNK FOODS AND I DON'T THINK JUNK THOUGHTS" :
Peace Activist Peace Pilgrim

"OUR SCIENTIFIC POWER HAS OUT RUN OUR SPIRITUAL POWER. WE HAVE GUIDED MISSLES AND MISGUIDED MEN" : Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"INTELLIGENCE IS THE ABILITY TO ADAPT TO CHANGE" : Physicist Stephen Hawking

"THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH HORATIO, THAN ARE DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY" : Author William Shakespeare

"ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, IS BUT A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM" : Poet Edgar Allen Poe

"INTELLECTUALS SOLVE PROBLEMS, GENIUSES PREVENT THEM": Physicist Albert Einstein

"NOT ONLY IS THE UNIVERSE STRANGER THAN WE IMAGINE, IT IS STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE" : English Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington

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Ken

Our Shared Challenge

This is something I wrote shortly after joining this community, it sums up how I feel about our condition. Since then, I've been asked to post it here, I hope you like it;

Diabetes is a complex condition,
For at the end of the day, no one can better understand the challenges we face and deal with, better than those of us who share this condition, having a faulty pancreas.

I believe the experiences we have and share make us stronger, provide us with a 'knowing' about life that few others… Continue

Posted on July 24, 2009 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

Ken

The Undiscovered Country

I'm convinced more than ever that all of us here are kindred at a very basic level, a physical level, in that our bodies operate differently than others. Yet what I see here is a community of very interesting, intelligent, artistic and talented people, who remain so despite our shared challenge. There is strength in our numbers.
Since being diagnosed in 4/05, I consider myself a traveler of sorts, to 'THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY', AKA The Future, so come along, I'll see you there...

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 10:30pm — 7 Comments

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At 7:33am on November 16, 2009, Astrid Lang said…
You have a great collection of citations on your page!
I like them! :-)

Hope you're well, Astrid.
At 1:15pm on November 12, 2009, Valeria Correa said…
Hi Ken, nice to meet you! I like your funky site :o) and the words you share on it....and those pictures... where did you get those skies?? Amazing!. Hope to get to know a bit more about Type 2, as I've been very much inmersed with my Type 1 all my life! Hope you are doing well. x
At 4:26am on November 4, 2009, Tim Mbithi said…
thanx for the add ken!
At 8:15am on November 2, 2009, Santiago Jimenez said…
Thanks for the add !
At 7:59am on November 2, 2009, Maria Lester said…
Thank you for adding me Ken. Nice to meet you.
At 6:02pm on October 31, 2009, Taylor Bennett said…
Thanks for the add! :)
At 6:26pm on October 30, 2009, Manny Hernandez said…

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At 2:03pm on October 30, 2009, Ruby Zuniga said…
Thanks for adding me. I am trying to figure this out.
At 9:23am on October 28, 2009, Natassia Kenney said…
Thanks! :)
At 5:17pm on October 23, 2009, Mustang Sally said…
Hello Ken: I added you to my friends list but somehow you disappeared. I am thinking that you are the great Houdini. lol We will have to try again. Have a great weekend. :-)

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