Tag: Complications

Eyeballs out

ChildI have beendiabetic longer than you are oldlong i chiiiilda gentle gnawinga slow abrasionand now you sayyou say let’spluck out her…
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The Beginning of Diabetic Retinopathy

I went to the eye doctor this morning for my annual check up. I didn’t go to my usual doctor, but to a doctor at the diabetes clinic. I decided to go there…
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Dangers from Without and Within

“I’ve always understood that the job of insulin was to move glucose from the blood into the cell, which is why in the absence of sufficient insulin,…
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The Sorbitol Blues

Whether type 1 or type 2, the number one obsession for the diabetic individual is blood glucose. There is good reason for this. The host of complications…
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Unfettered RAGE

Glucose, that innocuous sweet molecule, is reactive. Chemically, what happens is that glucose has a slight reducing capacity (i.e. the capacity…
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