Cheri,  I can be very cranky ands even vicious.  I do
ignore spelling and grammer here but am careful to
avoid personal attacks as much as possible.

Cheri, you know very well what I am addressing.

I  once posted a story about  "Betty"

The first time I saw her she was UGLY. But
two months later she was a beautiful girl. In fact
about 60 years later she is still beautiful
in my mind.

The message is one diabetic has an effect on
every person they meet..   Do we leave a
ugly or beautiful diabetic image?

I know.
http://www.dbtac.vcu.edu/whatsada-history.aspx

http://www.mtstcil.org/skills/ada1-b.html

Guy is an amputee.  His take on the rights of the disabled is highly
confusing at best.

He alludes to "special privileges", "argumentative", "problems for
employers" but does not give specifics.

"reasonable allowances" are not special privileges".  If you hire even
1 wheel chair bond employee, or one who uses the double canes to walk,
it is not a special privilege to request a building modification that
includes a handicap ramp at the curb and a handicapped accessible door
at the employee entrance if the current entrance prevents safe access
for the employee.

example my building has a separate employee entrance than the one used
by the public.  we have card reader accessible turnstiles to help
prevent unauthorized access.  We also have 2 automatic doors in place
just in front of the turnstiles that open at the press of a button and
a door that opens when the card is swiped on a reader programmed for
access to handicapped employees only, at the turnstiles.  That's 3
doors total.  The two outer doors activated by button not card reader
were only just recently installed.  Why? because handicapped, injured
and pregnant employees kept complaining about trouble getting through
the doors under different conditions.

Are those to be considered "special privileges"?  There was a
substantial cost involved in installing the system.  The company could
have saved money by not hiring the handicapped, and firing those who
had other reasons for asking for the doors to be reworked.

Our Visitor entrance is still not handicapped accessible.  We have
changed how we do business and we rarely get walk in business in the
office anymore.  We are scheduled to have the doors replaced with
handicapped accessible doors.  This is going to cost a lot more than
what was done at the employee entrance.  The reasons for this are that
I and a few employees have been complaining about accessibility to our
employees and visitors entering through this entrance.  99% of the
complaints came from non-handicapped individuals.

Guy has claimed that diabetics specifically are more argumentative at
work.  Not one shred of evidence has been given for this claim.  Now
if he is miscommunication and means to say that the disabled in
general push back in regards to discrimination more often than the
non-disabled I can give examples to support that at some jobs and
other examples to support that the opposite where non-disabled people
come to the defense of the disabled when the disabled were not willing
to stand up for themselves out of fear.  But I see no proof that
diabetes makes anyone more argumentative than anyone else.

I also see no evidence that diabetics specifically are or cause "more
problems for employers" than anyone else, disabled, chronically ill or
not.

Kurt says that he agrees with the idea that diabetics cause more
problems, but his actual example of "there will always be people with
a cold who over dramatize to anyone who will listen..." (paraphrased)
is the example I will use to contradict them both.  That behavior is
not limited to any one group, disabled, chronically ill, or
non-disabled/non-chronically ill.  There are drama queens in every
group.

Discrimination still place today.  The places that it is allowed are
the paces where no one stands up.  

Yes standing up for yourself could cost you your job.  Personally I'd
rather risk losing my job because I fought back against discrimination
than knowing that my silence allowed the next person to be
discriminated against, regardless if it meant I kept the job where the
discrimination was taking place or I kept silent so that the former
employer would not give a bad reference when the potential employer
contacted the previous one asking for references.

I do understand.  you are making up most of what you say in this post.
the rest you are basing on past not current experience and you are the
blaming others for your difficulties.  reread your post above and you
can find it right there.

My current manager made the same claim several times about having
learned to spot problem people.  The funny thing is everyone he has
hired since he took the position is a problem person.  

their behaviors include but are not limited too: lying, habitually
showing up late, leaving their gun belt with loaded gun and loaded
spare magazines unattended while doing rounds out of uniform, sleeping
on the job, viewing streaming media over the net in direct violation
of company policy and many other behaviors that I have seen people
fired for, but these behaviors are not overlooked or excused.

And Guy your claim that you do not care what other people think, is a
lie.  If you did not care about that, you would not have mentioned it
nor would you be constantly bitching about what other people are
posting when it does not meet with your approval.

The very act of posting in a public forum is because you want to be
heard/read which means you very much care what others think.

Guy,

Keep writing. It keeps our brains active. Most people our age do little
or no writing or reading for that matter, to their detriment I think.

Also, your ASD "Column" gives others an opportunity to exercise their
brains, and so we all benefit.

You well know that there can be considerable unkindness here, but yet
you continue to venture out. Kudos for the courage.

You and I have had our disagreements over the years, but this place
would suffer with your withdrawal.

In fact, I remember when you were gone for some time, people were
wondering where you were and were worried for you.

Thanks for all you do. I read your column, and so do your critics.

If you need to take a break, keep writing, but instead of reading the
criticisms, just count the responses and draw satisfaction from the
numbers. Anyway, that's what I do sometimes.

<snip>
I am not looking for advice, I am giving it
and, Byetta is not at all like Insulin pens.  It is a premeasured dose,
and you can't sim,ply "dump a couple"

I too noticed a small drop forming when ever I turned the knob after
injecting. Some one posted a while back to turn the knob when the needle was
still in to get the full dose, I started doing that and very seldom see the
extra drop when I remove the needle. I have also noticed that sometimes the
knob turns fairly easy and other times I have to press the button quite hard
to get it down to where the knob can be turned. I did lose some weight when
I started, but not lately because it's cold out side and most of my time is
setting in the house. I expect to lose more as spring comes and I go out and
do things outside. Except for the needle, it is a good drug.

That is because there were no tests run with Insulin. In fact, many of
us who were on large doses of Insulin continued to take Insulin

As to weight loss, I have lost over 60 lbs, and others I have talked to
have also lost a lot more than were shown by the studies

increased risk of hypo is a certainty. Those of us who have spent a lot
of time on Insulin are used to the problem, and can adjust easily

and my A1c is WAY down since I started on Byetta