Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2005/10

From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] new medicine, new hope
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:00:21 -0400

Hello, Everyone.

As some of you know, I have "Brittle Diabetes".
This means that I get frequent "Diabetic Crashes"
("sudden large drops in Blood Sugar Levels, often
low enough to cause coma or death within minutes").
"Brittle Diabetes" is very rare, but most never once
go unconscious. I'm one of the more rare kinds who
has "Diabetic Black-Outs" after nearly every large
"Crash". These are "periods of being unconscious
for one to eight hours at a time, and the following
day the, all memory of the Black-Out Day has
been erased". Each Black-Out is dangerous, and
I've been told for the last 3 years that any next
Black-Out could be fatal. I was officially declared
to be "End Stage" or "dying".

Starting in July 2005 the Blood Sugar Levels
from Several Crashes began falling consistently
BELOW the Usually Fatal Levels! Unless a
miracle happened, I was guaranteed to die in the
Autumn of 2005.

Well, a new medicine DID come along! I am
NOT allergic to it, and it BLOCKS me from
falling to Low Blood sugar Levels! In fact it keeps
my Blood Sugar Levels a bit too high, but I can
tolerate it will no ill effects. It's called "Byetta" or
"Exenatide" and is based off the Intestinal Enzymes
of the "Gila Monster". ("Gila" is pronounced as
"HEE-lah".)

The "Gila Monster" is similar to the "Mexican
Beaded Lizard". Both look similar to each other
and live in the hot deserts of Arizona and hot
jungles of Southern Mexico, respectively. (There
is also the "Gila River" and town of "Gila Bend"
in Arizona.) These are the only 2 species of
poisonous lizards in the world, but this medicine
is based off their digestive enzymes, and not their
poison. Gila Monsters generally eat only 2 or 3
meals per year, usually a whole mouse or smaller
lizard! Somehow the "Exenatide" slows the
digestive and pancreatic functions and blocks my
Blood Sugar Levels from falling too low!

In the last few years, we've noticed that I have
not gone more than eleven days without a Black-
Out. I've been on the "Exenatide" for 16 days, and
hadn't had a Major Crash and Black-Out for a week
before that! That means that this is now 21 DAYS
WITHOUT a Black-Out, almost TWICE as long
as I've gone in THREE YEARS! (I had promised
myself that if I could go 21 days without a Black-
Out, that I'd announce this miracle to the Instrument
Lists.) I'm still a "Type II Diabetic" and genetically
a "Brittle Diabetic", but I'm no longer an ACTIVE
Brittle Diabetic, nor am I "End Stage" ("dying").

"Byetta" or "Exenatide" was NOT invented to
help "Brittle Diabetes", which is VERY rare. It is
purely by coincidence that "Exenatide" can help
SOME Brittle Diabetics. It was intended to help
"Newly Diagnosed Type II Diabetics" who were
diagnosed within the last 3 years! (If that is you, or
someone that you know, ask your doctor about
"Byetta" or "Exenatide", but know that there are
always Side Effects. Whereas I've gotten bad
reactions to ALL of the other newer diabetic
medications, this one works well for me, but either
doesn't work at all, or causes extreme nausea, in
most other people.)

Instead of being dead by November 2005, I now
have a real chance to live long enough to make a
bigger difference in the history of Modern
Classical Music. (I've already had an Entire
Dissertation written about 4 of my Horn Works,
and articles in books and encyclopedias are being
written about me.)

Bear Woodson
Composer in Tucson, Arizona, USA
. . . . with a Gila Monster in my back!

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