Kindess

 I tried a little kindness to the guy on my right at breakfast and he actually nodded when I said good morning  Whether is was an involuntary  reflex or not I don't know as his mouth was full. In any case that was the last civil response at breakfast.  

On leaving I learned of the serious results of uncontrolled diabetes when I talked to the lady at the next table.  I asked how she was and she said ok except for her leg.  Control your diabetes or you will have perpherial  neuropathy.  That is when you limbs develop circulation problems. Most of the time in the legs. With arteries plugged up with glucose the foot ad legs become susceptible to redness, sores and then gangrene. You cant treat these conditions by  bandaging them. You MUST get to the source of the problem in the first place. Diabetes. Then they begin the salami effect of chopping off the sore area until you have no more to chop off.   When I pass this lady I wonder if the doctor met with the lady and sat down face to face and said flat out.  If you  don't control your eating habits you are going to die a slow miserable death before your time.  But they cant do that because the system does not allow them to treat diabetes to really cure it's effects.  It is impossible to manage diabetes with checking it's progress from an office somewhere off there by reading test results once a week.  Finally getting control of this woman's diabetes requires 20 hour monitoring and adjustment of insulin.  Because she is in a wheel chair I doubt they can even do this. 

The lady showed me her ankle area and it was red from poor circulation.  Sooner or later she will develop a sore due to circulation then the losing fight begins to stop gangrene.  But with no circulation the woman will lose her battle with gangrene. You don't have to be a doctor to know this.  I have seen it here before.  So if the medical department here has not sat the lady down and told her then they are contribution to her death.  When I came here they took away my ability to manage my diabetes which I had been doing for years and years and took over the management.  They could see that they could not manage the diabetes under their system and actually told me I had been doing a good job but now should stop  trying so hard ad let them do it.  I was incredulous and wondered why I should let myself go like all the others here at the facility. Like the lady next to my table.  I was doing a fairly decent job by careful eating and exercise until I got this pneumonia where I cant exercise.  If I continue to improve in 3 or 4 days I can resume normal exercise. They wont allow me to self medicate because of insurance restrictions. So in effect they are not working for me but the insurance company.