Hmmm. It's been a while. I recently spent a few days at a diabetes clinic. I met this man who had been diagnosed 44 years ago. It reminded me to be grateful for the tools we have today. Even 20 years ago, when I was diagnosed, I was spent home with no blood glucose meter.
Times have changed.
With power comes great responsibility. In a sense, it was easier when we didn't have the tools. Sure we all died from comlications sooner, but life wasn't so complicated, so numerical, so analytical. 1 unit for 4g. Unless it's evening. 1 per 10. Unless it's that week of the month, then it's 1 per 8. 1 unit for 75 mg/dl. Numbers surround me. Some come easily, others are like vague entities, who can appear, disappear, morph and dissolve before your eyes. 2 + 2 equals 17.
The human body is a wealth of mysteries. No matter how hard we try to analyze it, decompose it into a series of formulas and equations, the system is so complex that our attempts to simplify it into an understandable language are never enough.
Posted by sfisher at January 12, 2004 12:00 AM