Hello wife112080:

That is tremendous good news... ~forward~ is always good!

And <shrug> hey, if someone frames ideas in some new way, offers a context we did not have before does it matter who read it? Its part of the context now and we draw from it...

Stuart <Smirking Mischeviously>(at the thought of various family in their "sugar fairy" outfits)

"... I HATE YOUR GUTS... you are just plain evil S.O.B./a female dog in heat..." [sic. Is it the diabetes or is it you who is diabetic AND a nasty evil @)#*@(#@, and I just didn't realize that before]


Anybody ever wanted to say the above before to your diabetic???

This is a very interesting thought. I am glad to say that I have never felt that strongly regarding DH or the diabetes. That is not to say that we haven't had difficult times (see my post right before Labor Day). I feel like this is his/our challenge in life. Every person has challenges; his primary challenge just happens to be a medical condition that is easily identifiable. I have never felt like it isn't fair or anything like that. I do feel, every once in a while, that I need a break, just as I am sure he does. Don't we all feel that way about our challenges (work, children, parents, etc)? My only frustrations come when I feel like our desires and efforts to progress in life with diabetes are mismatched, but I would never say hate about either the person or the disease.

Hello wife112080:

Thankfully I too have never encountered that one directly either, but playing ~devils advocate~ sometimess causes interesting questions I think...?

Maybe the episodes (weepy, angry, dopey, bashful, giddy, etc. ie the diabetic 7 dwarves) are us, ripping the normal filters/inhibitions clean off compliments of our situational new brain chemistry?

Or are they causal? Only (insert emotion/mental state here) solely because of the sugar?

Stuart

The quote at the bottom is how I feel right now about the father of my children. If we didn't have children together, I'm afraid I would have been gone a few years ago. I will wait for them to grow up. I think that a person who is noncompliant is missing an important psychological key and that lack spans proportionally over every aspect of their lives. That "key" is due diligence. Maybe that isn't part of noncompliance, maybe that is just him. Here are the pills/shots he now takes daily:
Gemfibrozil 600 mg 2x day
Simvastatin 40 mg 1x day
Lisinopril 40 mg 1x day
Metformin 1000 mg 1x day
Zetia 10 mg 1x day
Diovan 160 mg 1x day
Humalog 3mL (insulin) 15 units b4 every meal (or adjust to BS levels)
Lantus Solostar 5x3ML 30 units before bed.
He is 50 years old.
For dinner last night he had two pork chops, two huge helpings of rice, then 1/2 hour later a large bowl of sugary cereal. If this was unusual I wouldn't comment. I made the pork chops but purposely made no rice or potatoes in order to not tempt him. He made it himself. He skipped the vegetables as usual.
The libido has disappeared in to oblivion. Long ago. That problem started a year before he was diagnosed. Got worse and worse. Then he had a couple of affairs (not sure to what degree these went, since I wasn't there and he isn't completely forthcoming) and so I quit that department altogether. I have no idea where that department stands now. We don't go there. A hard truth to tell, but the truth nonetheless. The libido problems are what were the demise of our marriage, truth be told. That may be the most difficult truth of all for some of you to hear. We tried pills which eventually stopped working. The affairs destroyed any desire to pursue it any further on my part. Now we sleep apart, and have since the affairs. I still love the man I fell in love with. Sometimes I just don't like him.

Hello dwife:

We are truly sorry your struggle is so great. I wish any of us had a decent key for you. Any chance the meds perscribed by lots of different people/places, are causing one or two of the issues perhaps?

My parents take many meds, for assorted things, but until they got filled at a single pharmacy they did not get the heads up from any pharmacist because their computer system sent up a flare...

Stuart