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 The Spirituality of Diabetes by Michael J. Spoula 1
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 The Spirituality of Diabetes by Michael J. Spoula 2
Title:
The Spirituality of Diabetes, The Chronicle of A Chronic Disease Sufferer 
 Dedication
 I dedicate this book to my wife Mary without whom this book would not have beenwritten. To my friend Bonnie who has fought the sugar wars for years now. Lord, Make me an instrument of thy peace,Where there is hatred, let me sow love.Where there is doubt, faith,Where there is despair, hopeWhere there is sadness joy And where there is Darkness light.Oh Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, tobe understood as to understand, to love rather then to be loved. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are bornto eternal life. St. Francis of Assisi Let us begin now, for until now we have done nothing. St. Francis of Assisi
 
 The Spirituality of Diabetes by Michael J. Spoula 3
Chapter 1 - The axe falls
“I’ve overcome the blow, I’ve learned to take it well…” Jim Croce
I don’t know what possessed me to go to the doctor. I was in reasonably good health, atleast I thought so. The last time I had been to a doctor was about ten years ago when Ineeded to have a doctor sign a statement that I had been counseled regarding HIV. I wasnot at risk for the disease but since we were going to get married in the State of Michiganthey required that I present a doctor’s certificate stating that I had been told about thisdisease. That particular examination was painless but complete and I enjoyed nine yearswithout intervention by the medical profession. I really had no symptoms of diabetes.My weight had ballooned up to two hundred fifty six pounds in that time. I was a plumpsize forty-six waist and my pants were tight at that. I began working a night shift job. Ihated the shift but I started to lose weight while I was on it. Before I realized whathappened I had dropped down to two hundred fifteen pounds. I congratulated myself onhow well I was staying away from snack foods. Little did I know at the time that mydramatic weight loss was the result of my body starting to waste away because it wasunable to use the sugar I was taking in. Sugar began to accumulate in my tissues and to be delicate, I began to excrete it. I thought nothing of this because I was drinking massquantities of water, “for my health..” I was simply pleased that I was losing weight. Igot rid of my size 46 pants and purchased size 44. The weight rolled off, I was loosingtwo or three pounds every week, all without effort on my part. Finally I leveled off at
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