Marie,
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That is a LOADED (bunch of) question(s). ;)
Let me gather all the data to give you a complete answer, Brian!
Hi Manny
I grew up in Lafayette, lived in SF for 18 years, moved out of the city after our 3rd kid, was told I was T2 in September 2013 which changed to LADA in May 2014. I just started Metformin yesterday after trying to manage it with nutrition and fitness. I was a fit 6’3" 205lbs when this started and now I’m a very fit 190lbs guy (same size as a freshman in college). My goal is to keep doing the active things I do, live a full life with our kids and embrace this disease. Do you know a great Dr in the San Francisco Bay Area that is trying to be a LADA expert? And is there a LADA triathlon or bike race team. Is there something I can do to help or get involved with locally?
Thanks for all you’re doing for diabetes!!
Mark
Hey there Mark,
My apologies about the radio silence. I was out the past couple of weeks, one week sick, the other one on vacation.
I don't know of any endos that are only specialized in LADA in the Bay Area, but I would recommend you join the following groups, and post about this in them:
http://www.tudiabetes.org/group/lada_diabetics - home room for people with LADA on TuDiabetes.
http://www.tudiabetes.org/group/northerncalifornia - there's a number of topics posted in here about endos members recommend in the Bay Area
Same here: http://www.tudiabetes.org/group/sfbayareateam
Hope this helps!
P.S. one of the biggest LADA advocates I know is also Bay Area-based. Her name is Melitta: http://www.tudiabetes.org/profile/melitta
well now i feel honored that you follow me, haha.
didnt know i tweet that much useful stuff ;)
I don't know if I've ever gotten a birthday message, Linda, certainly not for a few years. :(
Am I the only one; maybe that list needs updating!only the first 20 members with a birthday each day can be shown. it's a Ning restriction. and since they show them in alphabetical order, unlikely the "Z"s have been visible for years. we're lucky these days if it even goes into the "D"s.
Good to know. Sounds like you might need a new system to spread the birthday cheer around a bit.
If you change your name to "aaaa Zoe" you will always get a birthday greeting.
If you knew what I went through to change it to Zoe....lol
Seriously, though, my point is that some people shouldn't "always get a birthday greeting" and some people "never get one" I'm pretty comfortable in my place in this community and was just curious about it, but a newcomer might feel hurt when they saw other people's birthday greetings. There's gotta be a different way to do it!
But then you know me, I don't care for rewards either (even when I'm the recipient!) because I think everyone deserves recognition for making the community what it is. Guess I'm just a socialist at heart.I totally agree but we haven't come up with a way of doing it. With nearly 35,000 members that is on average 100 birthdays every day, with more than 500 on one certain day. We are certainly open to ideas.
I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough about computer systems to know what's possible, but just off the top of my head: Compile a chronological list of birthdays which would take a bit of work but if enough people helped out wouldn't be impossible. It would only have to be done once and then people could just be added to the list as they came in. Once you have the list, you just pick one year to do A-D, next E-H or whatever a reasonable number of birthday wishes for staff's time. That way it would rotate through the alphabet.
More technical and less time consuming, maybe there is some way for those 20 Ning names to rotate through the alphabet as well. Or at least start at the back of the alphabet one year or use first names one year, etc. Most lists I'm familiar with can be organized in various ways.
Final suggestion: Ask for more volunteers! I started this topic, so I'd be glad to send some birthday greetings to Wanda and Xavier and Yvette!
Good ideas, Zoe! Thanks for sharing them. Unfortunately creating, maintaining and using a list is a lot more time-consuming than one might think, even if we recruit more volunteers.
We've wished for a different way to display birthdays for a long time, for the exact reasons you stated, and actually are working toward a fix for the issue. Stay tuned for more about that in the fall... :)
Thanks for the response, Emily. Yeah, I know, "easy to say, harder to do". I do want to acknowledge how nice it is to send out birthday greetings at all. And I'm glad you're looking at a way to make it more equitable. Would be nice if we all were jet-setters and could have a monthly birthday celebration in rotating locales! The hard part would be deciding what to serve!
Zoe...that's another pet peeve of mine....that we cannot sent birthday greetings further down in the alphabet....here too rotating the order would be an asset.
PS. Send me a message with your birth date :)
Thanks, Linda, I appreciate the offer, but I'll stick down here with my end-of-the-alphabet peers until you guys figure out a way to rotate or include!
Wow, I am blown away that birthdays are such an important question for this "new idea". I know when my own birthday is! And it's certainly something when a diabetic gets to celebrate another one. Which leads me to a question about statistics. We have learned that the life expectancy has increased dramatically for individuals with type 1 diabetes. Is this true for all types? And YAY! Happy Birthday to all of us for g'ness sake! And thank you Emily for the click to the answers ;)
hi Manny,Could you speak a little on coping with diabetes mainly when first diagnosed. What words would you say to help the person and the family to get past the first days and move forward with plans for a good future . Thank You ..
Here are some thoughts about your question, Wendy:
Thanks, Manny! Good advice. I hope to see you at the FFL Conference in 2015.