The Diabetes Manager

I’d like to fill you in on a website featuring a mother with diabetes is detailing her journey to help other people locate data relevant to their lives. Coping with diabetes, for individuals like her, is an hourly task. For juvenile diabetes sufferers like her, the pancreas shuts down and produces little to no insulin.

For years, she took insulin shots via syringe several times a day and was always at risk of an insulin overdose.  Now, she says that she has an insulin pump which has lowered her A1C levels ever since. She has been pregnant on 3 occasions, and, of course, had diabetes throughout each pregnancy. She now has 3 children and participates in athletics such as running, rock climbing, hockey, working out at the rec center, etc. She enjoys living, but she always uses glucose tablets.

Her site has been set up to share her trials and tribulations with you. You might like to click on over and look through the data that’s available. She has been authoring and collecting articles for people curious about learning more about diabetes.  As an example, her latest post is covering guaranteed insurability, which can be an important deal for people with diabetes.

In “diabetes mellitus,” as it is accurately named, a person’s pancreas doesn’t properly create enough insulin or the individual’s body doesn’t properly use the insulin that is created. Insulin is important for converting sugars found in food into the energy that the human body needs, so diabetics naturally either can’t produce enough insulin or can’t properly make use of the insulin that they produce, or both. This can result in and excess glucose build up in the individual’s blood which can have devastating side-effects. In ’09, the American Diabetes Association stated that there are approximately 23,600,000 individuals in the U.S. alone that have diabetes. That is about 7.8 percent of the country’s people. Of them, about 17,900,000 individuals in the U.S. have been diagnosed as diabetic. If you’re keeping up, that leaves an estimated 5,700,000 individuals that are actually unaware that they are diabetic.

It is amazing to think that there are that many people that still don’t know much about diabetes, and so many individuals are diabetic and aren’t even aware of it themselves. Public knowledge needs to be increased. Check out the web page and browse the articles to help improve your awareness.

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