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In reply to the discussion: Sequestration playing havoc with lives of senior citizens. We must not excuse this. [View all]bigbadR
(49 posts)I am a Type I diabetic on medicare. Type I diabetics bodies make NO Insulin so we are dependent on insulin injections in order to remain alive. We are subject to two forms of coma, one the diabetic coma when our blood sugar becomes too high and our blood becomes both ketotic and too acidic we can lapse into a deadly coma. The other is when our blood sugar becomes too low, a non diabetic's blood sugar does not fall below 70 or 80 mg/dl, but a Type I diabetics blood sugar can rapidly fall to below 20 mg/dl and an insulin shock coma occurs which can also lead to death. Thus, Type I diabetics are required to test their blood sugar when they first wake up in the morning, before each meal, before driving a car, before and after exercise and before going to sleep. This prescribed testing requires a minimum of 8 glucose monitoring test strips a day since the sequester medicare will pay for 1 to 3 test strips daily. The other day I went to the pharmacy to fill my prescription for 250 glucose monitoring strips per month and received 25 test trips. THESE FOOLS ARE TRYING TO MURDER ME, THEY ARE TERRORISTS.