"Rob Halgren" wrote in message
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Indeed, and I wish you well with your illness.

Thanks. The disease is diabetes, and the symptom that is particularly
debilitating is the neuropathy that comes with it. This nueropathy
generally results in altered sensation: temperature extremes are often not
felt (and since they're not felt, it is easy to receive even third degree
burns without knowing it), and physical damage is often not felt (which is
why diabetics frequently lose limbs - they've stepped on broken glass or a
mail or something, and the resulting would got sufficiently badly infected
that gangrene sets in leading to the loss of the limb if detected early
enough to prevent death), and finally, if often produces phantom pain in
which it feels like you're enfuring the worst imaginable tortures and yet
there is no corresponding injury. And then, of course, there ae all the
other diseases, such as kidney disease, heart disease, &.c for which
diabetics are quite vulnerable. There isn't an organ in the body that isn't
at risk because of diabetes. Low blood sugar can lead to a coma, while high
blood sugar levels does plenty of damage to all organs in the body.

While insulin and medications like metformin, and a couple others, are
useful in controlling blood sugar levels, there is nothing that can be done
for the neuropathy that I believe to be both safe and effective.

And diabetes will become an ever increasing problem since the incidence of
it in north america is increasing (not too surprising since the single
largest factor in its onset appears to be stress).

The worst day above
:-)

This can be taken two more ways (both being logically valid, given implied
assumptions).

1) The worst day in heaven is better than the best day on earth.
2) The worst day on earth is better than the best day in hell.

Cheers,

Ted