Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 2005/10

From: "Warren Rosenberg" <wrosenberg47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] new medicine, new hope
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:51:06 -0400

I am very happy that you have discovered a med so helpful. It's a real
miracle.
I hadn't heard of this before and looked up Byetta and its manufacturer
Amylin. Their stock (amylin.com) has shot up this year. I hope you had
some of that too, but just the meds are enough for now.
Best of Luck to you.
Warren

> 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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