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Calvinnme wrote:Well, I'm a diabetic, not with nearly the problems your husband has - yet. Although I don't delude myself and say I'm normal as long as I take meds, I know the disease will progress, just hopefully more slowly. About his hunger, let me just say that many of us diabetics live in a "prison of hunger". It doesn't matter what he eats, his insulin by definition does not get used by his body effectively. So there he is, his blood awash in unusable insulin and sugar that will not go into the cells, so he might as well be eating cardboard. That is why he is so hungry. The thing is, and I'm sure you know this and he knows this too, is that weed makes you hungry. So he is just compounding the problem by using it. Maybe he is just in such a state that he would just rather check out mentally than anything else. It is a disease of hopelessness, since there really is no cure, just decline, no matter what the diabetic does. So I can imagine that nobody who has been through it as a caregiver ever on What's next?Thanks for writing. Yes, I understand the mechanics of insulin and the whys of his hunger. Yes, I know the weed is giving him the munchies and making him hungry. It doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it easy to live with.In some ways, I am lucky. He's been around way longer than I ever anticipated. :) In other ways, being a first hand witness to the slow decline this disease causes in the body is horrifying. The good thi...
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