people who will not listen

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I am pulling this one over to a new thread.

Connie's original post is below my reply.

good for you Connie

Maybe some day your husband will listen to your concern and love for him.

Be forewarned... this post is slightly heavy so skip reading it if you do not

like deep serious posts *grin*.

Also, this post is in no way directed to list members, it is a reflection of the

family and friends that I love.

I will never figure out why people you love with diabetes will not listen to

reasoning and instead stick with a family doctor that is killing him or her.

My pastor is now 70 years old and was diagnosed a type 2 3 years ago.

This man is very dear to my heart.

I have tried talking to him about normalizing blood sugars to prevent diabetic

complications. He will not listen. He says is doctor, who is a family doctor,

says his a1c of 6.0 to 6.5 is good and that he only has to check his sugar once

a day in the morning.

I explained that if he did not take this more serious and get under a doctor

that is current with treatment and aggressive he would die from this disease.

This talk was three years ago. You all know that I am well educated on diabetes

management and control. I printed him out a 4 page document on how to normalize

his sugars. He has never read it.

In only *three* years he already had to have a bypass due to blockage in his

heart a month ago. Why is that happening? Simple, he would not listen to what I

was saying to him. Even though I showed him printouts of my lab work, the

decline, the improvements, Bernstein's research on how he is correct and every

other form of treatment will *never* normalize you, he *still* will not listen

even after having the bypass!

So here I am hugging him glad he is still alive but unable to shake him and say

stop killing yourself! Just stop eating the damn carbohydrates and stop killing

yourself it is not worth it!

Quick acting carbohydrates is more important to you than your own life?

An a1c of 6.0 to 6.5 cost him a bypass in only 3 years.

an a1c of 6.5 to 7.0 cost me my eyesight in only 5 to 8 years.

Some more rambling...

My pastor's family crap doctor says it was genetics that caused him to need the

bypass. Rubbish! Rubbish! When are doctors going to stop hiding behind that sad

excuse of this genetics factor and it is the all encompassing brush that you can

stroke over any unexplainable situation. Yes genetics may play *some* into it,

but the main culprit is the man will *not* normalize his sugars.

Let me reverse his life and go back three years and get him normalized. I 100%

guarantee he would have not needed a bypass three years later *sigh*.

This is the hardest thing for me personally. That is, people I love not

listening to me as though my routine that I am following is nutty and yeah

whatever type attitude.

Hey... I am the one running a constant sugar of 80!!!

Another friend of mine tom who is 38 is a type 2. His a1c was 9. Two years ago I

looked him in the eye and said you will stroke if you do not get your sugars

*normalized* and he laughed and said shut up.

8 months later he stroked at the gas station pumping gas and laid there writhing

on the cement. He is only 38 folks.

If I could rewind his life 2 years ago and got his sugars normalized I guarantee

he never would have stroked at the age of 38.

People, I, love, will, not, listen!

Bernstein 100% is valid, understands the disease, knows how to normalize your

sugars, and he has years worth of research to back his findings. Both scientific

research and medical research to prove it.

Some more frustration to vent off here...

Why won't family and friends listen to valid research and facts that I love? I

will never understand that as long as I live. Perhaps it is just the simple fact

that people want to do what they want to do and are just damn stubborn

jackasses. However, if someone told me I could run a sugar of 80 or 4.5 canadian

all the time and fully eliminate diabetic complications I would jump at the

opportunity. In fact, I did!

Unfortunately my pastor and friend Tom did not.

I have to stand back and watch them kill themselves simply because they are

unwilling to give up quick acting carbohydrates? Folks, this is the hardest part

of mastering the disease... knowing you have the cure for them and they won't

listen.

We all know what happened to Wayne on list here. That was one of the hardest

hits for me. I spent hours on the phone with him training him and loving him

through his difficult times. Well, he flat out did not apply it and died.

Tough stuff folks. Really hard for me to handle this part of diabetes so just

wanted to dump. Thanks for listening.

Regards,

Re: I am a new comer,

> Yes he knows, and he want me to find out all I can find out for him. He

> has diabetes 2. I believe he was diagnosed about 10 years ago.

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