Re: Ping: Barb re: apple butter

Ophelia wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
Ophelia wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
Ophelia wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
Many people lead normal lives without meds who have diabetes.
Sounds like you're doing the right thing Wayne. My list A1c was
4, fairly good for an old fat guy.
You are an old fat guy? Then who was that handsome dude you passed
off as your photo before????


Jeez Ophelia, in 2004 I weighed 272 lbs. I was down to 170 when I
damned near died due to bacterial infection. Since the end of March
2007 I have gained 40 lbs back. The handsome dude was still me, or
at least that's what Miz Anne tells me.
She is right of course:)

I like to think I'm
distinguished looking at 68 with a full head of gray hair. You
should have seen me when I was 30 and jumped out of airplanes with
250 lbs of equipment strapped to me. Weighed about 160 back then
and it was mostly muscle. I'm really lucky in that my wife still
loves me, gray hair, pot belly and all. Of course I'm a very good
cook too. <BSEG>
Hey, that is what my David did:) Jumping out of airplanes with huge
amounts of equipment strapped on that is:)) You and he ought to have
plenty to discuss:) He isn't a good cook though <G>

btw a couple of years ago, I nearly died with an infection. Scary
stuff eh??
I didn't know I was dying, just couldn't breathe. Evidently the
bacterium shut down my kidneys and body fluids backed up into my lungs
causing the breathing problem. EMS folks said they have found many
older males dead on the floor with the phone in their hands. My
phones have the EMS number on speed dial. <G> Not knowing what it was
I didn't have sense enough to be frightened. The frightening part is
the particular bacterium I was infected with is antibiotic resistant
and generally found in hospital environments. Doctors said I probably
had it four or five years before it ran amok and tried to do me in.
Sometimes I think we modern people are to dependent on antibiotics
when rest and chicken soup would do the job.

Glory be!!! You just thank your lucky stars they can do something about it now.. I wouldn't be alive without them I had a very fancy Hickmanline sticking outta me chest:)) I was able to go home because of it and I was able to adminster my own antibiotics. Without it I would have been in hospital for months!!

Was it like MRSA? I had Staph. Aureus. That is something that lives on the skin and mostly cause no bother at all. Still, never mind all that:)) Here we are, chatting across half the world, Just a few years ago we would never have known of each others existance:) Life is good eh:)


Nope, Acenetibacter was the bacterium that nearly did me in. The heart doctors made it worse. They thought I had congestive heart failure (have had a bad ticker for years), and over medicated the high blood pressure caused by system failure when the bacterium hit me. My Filipino kidney doctor caught it when he came into the room and my BP was 53/20 and I couldn't pick my head up off the pillow. We became fast friends that night at 11 pm. I cook a little Filipino meal for he and his wife and in-laws whenever I can. None of the American doctors recognized what was wrong with me thus the misdiagnoses. Oh well, anything you live through is a learning experience.

George
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