If so, we know exactly the feelings and emotions you are likely going through right now as a new diabetes patient. If you are recently diagnosed or had this terrible disease (diabetes mellitus) for any length of time, we definitely empathize with you. The love of my life, Virginia, has lived with Type 2 diabetes going on over twenty years now. We have endured far too many doctor visits and lengthy hospital stays together, and decided to create this diabetes site in order to share our diabetes knowledge and experience with the diabetic community, and to let you know that you are not alone as you begin to manage your own diabetes condition. We certainly hope that you and your loved ones will experience the day when newspapers around the world report that doctors have finally discovered a cure for this terrible, depressing disease. We know that exciting day is coming--it is only a matter of time: "Doctors Discover a Cure for Diabetes!" Won't that day be something?..:) In the meantime, please fully explore this site, and learn as much as you can about how to manage and control your diabetes and take care of yourself, so that you will have a better chance of prolonging or even avoiding some very serious diabetes related complications. Just one of those dreaded diabetes complications that you will want to avoid, or at least delay in its progression, is called, proliferative diabetic retinopathhy. Virginia was recently diagnosed with the advanced stage of this diabetic eye condition, and she is far too young to have gone through all of this--she is only in her forties! She almost went totally blind due to this long-term diabetes related complication. You should head over now to learn from Virginia's personal struggles with advanced diabetic retinopathy. |