About us, what you need to know,
Why we are here, why this website
The objective of this site is to gather and provide a wide range of diabetes related information that can inform and help fellow diabetes sufferers to better understand and learn about the disease, and to encourage improvement in its management and control, while understanding the demanding personal efforts required to battle the condition to achieve and keep a satisfactory state of health.
This site does not provide medical advice. That is the role reserved for the medical profession and I have no medical qualifications to do so. If you have diabetes you must be under the care of a doctor or your health and perhaps your life is at risk.
But reference will be made to properly qualified medical sources, institutions, associations, hospitals etc., that do, in general, provide medical opinion and/or recommendations on a wide range of medical topics related to the disease of diabetes and its complications, its treatments, risks, and dangers. That is why I believe a site such as this, with its aim of bringing forth information and views of fellow diabetics, is of value to others.
The material presented here is general in scope and may perhaps help to supplement the essential medical advice and information that is provided in the doctor’s office but where a physician may be limited by the time available to discuss anything much other than the current specific treatment and medications being prescribed. And a newly diagnosed diabetic patient may not fully understand or know very much beyond the absolute minimum. So perhaps the information here might assist such a person
So who am I to host this website ?
My name is Jim Robinson, I was diagnosed more than 20 years ago as being a full fledged Type 2 Diabetic. The experience and insight I have gained over that period of time as a patient, together with significant reading that I have undertaken to be informed, and to stay informed on the wide range of topics dealing with diabetes, is, I submit, of value and worthwhile to share with my fellow diabetes sufferers. It is well established that much of the care of the diabetes condition is left to each individual patient and this is the subject matter that will be addressed on this website.
It’s about being better informed
The sources of much that will be compiled, edited, and rewritten for this site can be found elsewhere, spread throughout the internet, in books, magazines, health care pamphlets, and such, but my role is to select, for this one location, some of the more relevant material that will assist those who wish to learn a little more about diabetes, a disease that affects approximately 245 million people around the world today and a number is growing rapidly.
Follow the doctor’s orders, and . . .
We recognize and accept the need to diligently follow the doctor’s instructions for the treatment of our diabetes. But, after diagnosis and treatment is prescribed, it becomes our own responsibility to play a leading part in combating the disease. The management and control of our diabetic condition is in our own hands, the actions that we take each day can have a major effect on the outcome. In addition to following the doctor’s instructions, it helps to become better informed about diabetes, about the many topics related to diabetes, and to be aware of the complications and serious consequences that may impair the life of a diabetic as time goes by. As of now, in 2009, there is no cure for diabetes — but research continues towards that objective, and that includes leading edge research involving stem cells and DNA. For example, in 2005, the Joslin Diabetes Center discovered a new gene implicated in the cause of type 2 diabetes and much effort continues to be applied to finding more clues that might lead to successful treatment and, eventually, a cure.
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