Okay, when you mentioned the heavy periods, IMO, that's your problem with the anemia and lack of energy. I had that back in '04, and I was put on iron, then given shots to make the blasted bleeding stop. It would stop then start again. I remember just walking from one room to another I'd have to sit down and catch my breath. One day the bleeding got so bad I went to the ER, was given two transfusions then had the hysterectomy a few days later. They kept me on iron for three months afterwards. I remember the heart palpitations which is NOT good. I later read that I came THIS close to having a stroke! Get your Ablation done ASAP. I was such an idiot I didn't know how much danger I put myself in. I guess I didn't tell the doctor just how much I was bleeding. lol. BTW, to this day I've never gotten all my energy back even though I'm not anemic anymore. My anemia lasted a year before I had surgery. Stupid stupid me. lol

glad the little one is doing well! (but keep your eye on her!)

Beverly has done well today. She had outpatient surgery around 9am today, and is home resting with Tim and her daughter in attendance. I'm sure she'll be posting by tomorrow!

There is absolutely no doubt that a good healthy balanced diet is best for all conditions including diabetes. No arguments at all there. Balanced being the important term. I have undergone multiple diabetes education classes, seminars, workshops etc. I get it. I'm living it. What is upsetting to me and I am sure to anyone else that has type 2 the constant implication that we are second class citizens, and don't deserve to have medical research money spent on us like in the article quoted because we are responsible for our disease. That is so far from the truth and it is beyond hurtful to hear it. That the public is being raped because money is spent on research to help save our lives, we are not worthy of the same treatments as a patient with cancer, or any other deadly disease. That is exactly how it came across in both posts. And believe me we hear it all the time. The diabetes forums are so many people expressing this same feeling, being looked down upon, spoken to with disgust. I spent my entire life being a degreed, licensed, medical researcher fighting to find cures for diseases and help for genetic related conditions. Because I am a Geneticist. I did go to medical school. I did pay my dues. I did everything in my power to try to help people no matter what disease they had. I worked on cancer protocols, diabetes protocols, hepatitis, all types of genetic illness in pregnancy, I spent years working on the Human Genome project as did all geneticists. So to hear someone so easily say that " Another pill to treat a disease that is due to sugar, sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, whatever you want to call it!" How belittling. And express that money should not be spent on that research, what instead we should be simply left to die because God forbid we got the damn disease that is caused by sugar? See how that could just possibly stab me in the heart and be a little upsetting? Believe me I am not the only one feeling this right now. Would anyone have ever said the same thing about a new drug that was found to reverse breast cancer?