the unhinged: sweet urine disease

This post is about how alternate perspectives are developed. I guess always the best place to start is your own experience. So for me? Diabetes, Type 1, and its effects on mind/body. Diabetes is an auto immune condition where islet cells from the islands of Langerhans are killed by the immune system. A balance of insulin, exercise and healthy meals is the key. Because hands not pancreas administers insulin makes blood sugar go up and go down. Effects mind, vision, perception.

Diabetes is- disease, condition, someone close once called it a monster, i say no, i say beast. powerful and decisive, willing and fast moving changing. For this, my perspective of reality is often altered. Open lucid states are permitted. It breaks rhythms, consistency (consistency in this case is change). This kind of change is change of emotion, change of mind state-- hallucinate. feel and see things in multiple layers, each tinted differently.




I just looked for blogs speaking about the effects blood sugar has on emotions and i read to specific guidelines and rules about A1ccccccc's and eating/spiking- numbness of lips, silliness-










they forget to mention-

• euphoria
  
• clairvoyance
• lethargy
  
• loss of control
  
• absence of limits and restraints
  
• talkative, opinionated
• confused
  
• scared
• creative
• intense feelings of all sorts- of love, of hate.

Saw this is the news....oh, when I was diagnosed in 1990, The Joslin Diabetes Center said surely there would be a cure within five years....

A team of scientist in Brazil has published the results of a study of 23 people treated with a new diabetes treatment using the patients’ own stem cells. (Journal of the American Medical Association, vol 301, p 1573).

This treatment was aimed at people with type 1 diabetes, where a person’s own pancreatic cells were being attacked by the immune system. The doctors collected blood from the patients and isolated stem cells called CD34, which can differentiate into white blood cells. The patient’s own immune system was than destroyed using drugs. After total destruction of the person’s own immune system, the doctors injected the CD34 stem cells back into the patient, hoping new white blood cells will be created.

The results show that 12 of the people now life free of insulin. Their pancreas, no longer being attacked, can now make its own insulin. 8 people need less insulin than before and only 3 patients show no benefit at all.

Though this procedure is risky and has only been tested on 23 individuals, perhaps this type of stem cell treatment can pave the way to a cure for type 1 diabetes