hello Pat! I have the book!!!! I started to read it; it's not easy. Hope you're well; is it cold in AZ ( maybe Arizona??) Here it's cold.

hello again! Thanks ! Je suis très heureuse d'être votre (ou ton) amie! Professeur de Français!!!! I think it's a difficult language!. I'm waiting for my book now!

Hi Pat! I've been out of town and am just catching up. Loved your participation over in the lo-carb discussion. Doesn't it make a big difference, though?! I, too, am going to try the breakfast bars. I also dislike fussing in the morning and whip up a smoothie of hemp powder, whey, cinnamon and nopal and a little unsweetened soy milk which I can drink while I feed the cats, etc. But what a great alternative!

Where in MN are you from? I grew up in Mpls, taught in Faribault before moving west in 1979. Just got back from a lovely Amtrak trip to visit family there.

Be well.....Judith in Portland

I'm doing my Masters in Psychology. Actually, I'm studying online support groups as part of it. I think the Internet has really changed the way we think about support and emotions.

Thanks for the comment Pat! I'm not sure it's the American diet that is doing the killing though. I'm South African as is my recently diagnosed cousin, my grandfather and his brothers were Irish, and then there are the Canadian cousins too! I don't even eat hamburgers! I loved French fries, but well, they're French, right? LOL. :)

The form defaults to "Type 1" but when you set it to Type 2 and save it will be saved as Type 2. Just go to your main profile page and you'll see it.

Hello Pat,
I am glad you are finding the community to offer you the support you came looking for.

As for the profile change, the page where you make the changes indeed shows the first option available after you have hit SAVE, but if you notice here on your Profile page, it does show you as Type 2, so you are good to go. :)

In Saudi Arabia,the problem is more,girls have to marry from the same trib.and her paternal than maternal first cousin especially in large tribs,from generation to another,with autosomal disease diagnosed just by knowing family name especially in inbrn error of metabolism cases.
In upper Egypt,it was the same but poeple have changed lately.
We are allowed to marry our first cousins in Islam but were advised to enquire about family history.
Premarital screening for sickle cell disease and thalassemia is mandatory to get marriage certificate,but the funny thing it would not change the mind of couple if tested positive.Not even after councelling.

Pat,thanks.
I have many families with more than two siblings with diabetes,and one family with all girls (6) are diabetics.HLA was identical,the parents are double first cousins( in our are we can marry our first cousins,that is why we have many autosomal recessive disease).