Sunday, September 04, 2005

A grandmother at risk...

Yesterday on CNN, we saw an extroverted young boy (maybe
10 years old) take a reporter to meet his grandmother. His
grandmother said she was a diabetic and it was obvious
that the lady hadn't had much to eat based on what was
around her. She was sitting on what might have been a
raised street. I don't know if she was able to test her
blood sugar and I sincerely hope she is a type 2 and not a
type 1; she obviously did *not* have refrigeration.

On the bright side, type 2 is supposedly very predominate
among the "minorities" and I hope this black grandmother
was another of us type 2s. (For what it is worth, I am one
of the white type 2s.)

My wife and I are wondering what is being done to
save/support the insulin dependent diabetes in this
disaster. If there was *ever* a time for James Lee Witt to
have been running FEMA, now is it!

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