: About Me

Having been hypoglycemic most of my life the concern of diabetes was never foremost in my mind even though most of my blood relatives had it. I was very active and had a good diet and did not believe it would happen to me. But it did. When undergoing treatment for a heart condition I learned that I had suddenly developed high blood sugar. Thinking it was temporary I followed my doctor's advice and started testing at home. I was almost consistantly between 200 and 300 on the tests. After about 18 months of this my eyes began to suffer and my heart took a turn for the worse. I moved to a new...