{"id":475,"date":"2011-05-16T15:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2011-05-16T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:08:47","slug":"the-voice-of-the-people-my-peeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of the People, My Peeps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening &#8211; whichever the case may be!<\/p>\n<p>The Voice of the People, my &#8220;peeps,&#8221; has been heard.\u00a0 Literally, your\u00a0comments have been read in response to each and every blog that I have posted.\u00a0 Thank you for your time and your sharing.\u00a0\u00a0Each and every one is\u00a0appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>This blog was formed due to a book I wrote: &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My Diabetic Soul &#8211; An Autobiography<\/span>.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Because of my sporadic blogging, comments arrive every day.\u00a0\u00a0 These comments from you, all of you,\u00a0 have been &#8216;read,&#8217; pondered, and saved.\u00a0 I thank you.\u00a0 Your comments are enlightening, encouraging and beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, I do not reply to you one-by-one.\u00a0 Not only is this due to a time factor, but also because of &#8220;worms.&#8221; Yep, worms. These are the infamous computer worms that wreak havoc upon any computer system.\u00a0 Since blogging on this site, I have received 394 worms. Yep, 394! Yuck, yuck and double yuck!\u00a0 I do not like worms, whether in my computer or slimily wreathing upon the ground.\u00a0 In my world, worms were created for fishing, not &#8216;phishing.&#8217; Therefore, literal fishing men and women all over the world can have them.\u00a0 Peace be with you on that subject!<\/p>\n<p>Most accumulated remarks have come from your readings on my being a &#8220;cyborg&#8221; due to using an insulin pump.\u00a0 Many other comments pertain to &#8220;The Diabetes Center for Education&#8221;\u00a0(DCE). \u00a0In fact, partial proceeds from the sale of\u00a0this recently published book, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My Diabetic Soul &#8211; An Autobiography<\/span>,&#8221;\u00a0are contributed to that non-profit organization.\u00a0 I am glad to have read that you like this action.\u00a0\u00a0 This is another one of my endeavors toward a win-win outcome.<\/p>\n<p>To briefly explain, the DCE\u00a0 is a seasonal\u00a0learning and awareness &#8220;camp&#8221; for children, adults <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> their families whom are\u00a0effected an affected with this disease.\u00a0 I spent nine summers of my childhood there.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a long time!\u00a0 BUT, I <em>thoroughly<\/em> learned how to <em>take care of myself <\/em>from giving myself insulin injections (at age 6), to balancing food intake, to\u00a0varying types of exercises performed each and every day.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another popular topic of interest\u00a0involves the fact of Diabetes Supplies and Expenses (&#8220;Medical Expenses&#8221;).\u00a0 This\u00a0particular article seems to have enlightened many non-diabetic persons to the\u00a0costs and efforts of each and every diabetic\u00a0having to\u00a0maintiain a successful existence with diabetes.\u00a0 Facts is facts!\u00a0 The truth hurts!<\/p>\n<p>Your inquiries have successfully heightened my awareness and knowledge.\u00a0 Truly.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, repeated questions of &#8220;where did you get your website?&#8221;; &#8220;why did you (or didn&#8217;t you) mention this (whatever) in your article;&#8221; &#8220;why can&#8217;t I get your RSS feed&#8221; (IDK what such a thing is)?<\/p>\n<p>Further comments remark on misspellings (thank you); the positive aspects of certain and often detailed subject matter; the sharing and &#8216;bookmarking&#8217; of certain informative blogs; and the awareness of shared information, infomation that some individuals never thought about.\u00a0 I am glad to have enlightened you.\u00a0 At least I like to think I did!<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, I look forward to hearing from you!\u00a0 My next blog will involve a controversial topic of eating <strong>sugar-free foods<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you will find this interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards!\u00a0 Keep learning!\u00a0 And read my book!\u00a0 It is available online as an E-book, a Paperback, and an Audio Book.\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Mydiabeticsoul.com<\/span><\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p>As always&#8230;A. K. Buckroth. Author, Speaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening &#8211; whichever the case may be! The Voice of the People, my &#8220;peeps,&#8221; has been heard.\u00a0 Literally, your\u00a0comments have been read in response to each and every blog that I have posted.\u00a0 Thank you &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}