Spotlight: Maureen Mould
SPOTLIGHT:
MAUREEN MOULD
Maureen Mould has broken the rules. Somebody
said "you can't do that, because you're diabetic!" She
wasn't listening.
Now 45 years old, she was born into a family
"pretty much inundated with the disease." Her father,
sister, brother, both grandfathers, and some aunts and uncles had
diabetes, and she was diagnosed with the condition at age five.
"It didn't stop me from doing much of
Managed Health Care
WHAT IS MANAGED HEALTH CARE?
by Christine Tobin, MBA, RN,
CDE
For many of us, the growth of "managed
health care" has been frustrating and confusing. We are
angry and upset at a system in transition, which we do not yet
fully understand. Some areas of the country are just beginning to
feel the impact of managed care, while other regions are fully
involved. These different stages in the evolution of managed care
compound our lack of understanding.
Essence of Maturity
THE ESSENCE OF
MATURITY
by Marc Maurer
Mr. Maurer, President of the National Federation of the
Blind, delivered the following keynote address at the NFB
annual convention, Anaheim, California, July 4, 1996.
Maturity is the exercise of intelligence in the fourth
dimension--time. As Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, who was then
serving as President of the National Federation of the
Blind, said in 1986: "To the extent one ranges backward in
Dealing with Male Impotence
DEALING WITH MALE
IMPOTENCE--ANOTHER OPTION
by Allan D. Nichols
Imagine you are a man in your mid-forties. You have
been a diabetic for over 30 years. You have fought, and
still fight, nearly every conceivable complication of that
insidious disease. You are blind, and you have had a kidney
transplant following the loss of your own kidneys. You have
long suffered from diabetic neuropathy, which has taken both
your feet and a couple of fingertips. You know what it's
Letters To The Editor, Fall 1997
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
February 19, 1997
Please send me the VOICE free, as I am newly
diagnosed with diabetes. Your newspaper helped me and answered
more questions than any other book I've read about diabetes. I
love the stories... Your newspaper was given to me by a friend of
my mother's from the library. I read it every second I get,
page-to-page, over and over. It seems to help me cope better than
any thing else I've read.
Thank you,
Letters to the Editor (Spring97)
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
November 4, 1996
I would like to take this opportunity to express my
appreciation, and that of my clients, for the fine job you
are doing with the VOICE OF THE DIABETIC. The articles are
most informative. The printed and taped versions of the
VOICE are in constant circulation.
Again, thanks for the good work. We need and
appreciate unbiased, dedicated people like you on our side,
speaking not only for those of us who are blind diabetics,
Letters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
August 12, 1996
Thank you so very much for sending me
the free newspaper to give to my patients. You truly do wonderful work. God
Bless You All.
Sincerely, R. Muller, RN
South Logan County Health Dept.
Booneville, AR
Kidney Failure
KIDNEY FAILURE,
DIALYSIS, AND TRANSPLANTATION
by Ed
Bryant
Keeping Your Feet
KEEPING YOUR FEET
(This article appeared in VOICE OF THE DIABETIC,
Volume 12, Number 4, Fall 1997, published by the Diabetes Action Network of
the National Federation of the Blind.)
The October 1996 issue of the journal
"Biomechanics" carried an article, by Christopher E.
Attinger, MD, which reexamined traditional attitudes toward
salvage vs. amputation of badly infected lower limbs, where the
patient was a diabetic experiencing renal failure. The prevailing
Islet Cell Transplants
ISLET CELL TRANSPLANTS HOLD PROMISE FOR
DIABETICS
by Neerajh Sankaran