Bravo on being a featured member shoshana ♥

Shoshana, did you get the info about my cousin? I sent it in a message which you should get in an email instead of a comment.

Hello Shoshana I just heard about the longevity of your diabetes and just wanted to say I think it is inspirational. Many Congratulations to you on your wonderful achievement. Tricia :) x

Shoshana,
You are an incredible inspiration!!

Hi Shoshana- Congrats on being a featured member. I hadn't realized you were diabetic for over 70 years. WOW !! I am sure you have seen a lot in the changing treatment of D. Mazel Tov !
Cat =^..^=

Thanks! Is a Lolcat :)

we are blessed.
If I did not have type 1 I think I would be dead by now
workinfg on 55years with type 1 hope to make it to 80years old to see my grandsons graduatew.
I am 59 yrs
Thank you Robert

Thanks for the welcome, Shoshana. Suddenly I don't feel as though I'm wandering alone in the wildnerness. I was diagnosed with Type II last June. I inject 30 units from a trusty Lantus Solostar pen between 10 and 10:30pm. I went into a diabetic coma last year and very lucky to be alive. Imagine waking up in hospital after four days and being told you're diabetic. I have been walking and trying to eat right but can't seem to lose weight. Also, back in December, my Alc was 7. Lately though my blood sugar is constantly high. I don't want to keep doing more and more medicine. Hopefully there are others of like mind on this forum with suggestions to help me. Thanks again, Shoshana for the welcome.

Hi Shoshana, thanks so much for the welcome. I'm sure I will learn alot, I'm so looking forward to it. Blessings to you and yours.

Hello shoshana27: Thank you for the kind words. I'm a Federal Retiree and have Blue Cross and Blue Shield Standard Option which pays for may pump with minimal cost for me. However I have heard so much about the infections and the practicality of the pump that I have chosen not use one. Believe it or not I have even been mailed two pumps and I do not wish to use one. I got Diabetes Type 1 back in 1985 before the meters and all the stuff that is now available and maybe my A1C may improve with a pump but I do not want to take the chance of infections, complications and been uncomfortable with one. I Thank You however and I'm pleased to meet you.

Shoshana, I keep forgetting to tell you that my cousin lives in Forest Hills - 69th I think?

Would you consider writing a narrative about being in France during the war? I know I'd be very interested to hear what it was like, as would many others!

Shoshana, all I can say is WOW! Mazel Tov!

thank you to add me as a friend. I can't imagine a child, a diabetic child with type 1 during the war. Do you think there was french insulin during these bad times? Your family was American? I remembered that I asked an Endo about "how a type 1 could survive during the War? And he couldn't said a word. Have a nice day. Today it's election time here.

thank yiu for your answer! I hope you're well. Did you live in Paris during the war?

shoshana, you can buy a TuDiabetes T-shirt here

http://store.diabeteshandsfoundation.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=21

hi shoshana, hope you're doing well today, thanks for welcoming new members, it's wonderful to have someone who's had it for such a long time and still active welcome new members.

Thank you for the support. It always helps a worried mama to hear good outcomes for a child diagnosed so young. I know things have come a long way (thats putting it mildly!) since you were diagnosed and I look forward to advances in the future to make my daughter's life and all T1 lives easier.