Mary Tyler Moore. RIP funny lady.
Mary Tyler Moore. RIP funny lady.
And a real hottie on the DVD show.
Type I diabetes onset at 33? That's interesting.
RIP MTM.
Dr. Hess wrote: Type I diabetes onset at 33? That's interesting. RIP MTM.
Interesting, but not unheard of. Although I'd assume that it was onset earlier than that and only diagnosed at 33.
No, when DM type I hits, it hits and down they go. Not, oh, yeah, well, my sugars have been running 600 for a couple years now, I guess I have DMI.
I wonder if we're going to make it after all.
The drummer from the Allman Brothers too so that's 2 so far already.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPs0vuxgZfe/
One time I was in the Minneapolis airport and I was invited into the Northworst Airlines lounge by the strokey owner I worked for.
MTM was heading out so I stopped her to congratulate her on the statue they had just put up in her honor. She was kind, polite, and thankful to me - she was a classy lady.
Sometime I'll tell you about when I sweated Mike Ditka at O'Hare airport.
That really sucks. She seemed like a genuinely nice person. Plus, she was a total hottie on the early episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Who would have thought that she'd be outlived by Dick Van Dyke, Ed Asner and Betty White?
Tk8398 wrote: The drummer from the Allman Brothers too so that's 2 so far already. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPs0vuxgZfe/
Plus 2 MLB players Andy Marte and Yordano Ventura
2017 Seems to be trying to live up to Big brother 2016 so far. Lost a co-worker to a sudden heart attack last week. Not to mention the various celebrities and the casualties from the Storms in the Southeast. Maybe we should start a new thread, maybe call it 2017 Celebrity Death Crash?
Mary Tyler Moore's legs were shown in the Peter Gunn tv shows. Just her legs. I think she was an switchboard operator .
Correction. It was Richard Diamond PI, not Peter Gunn
Wow, always liked her since the DVD Show in B&W. I thought she was at her best though in her 40's, nice mature woman there, always classy too. RIP MTM.
Dr. Hess wrote: Type I diabetes onset at 33? That's interesting. RIP MTM.
More adults are getting type 1 than kids these days...like me at 28.
Huh. Well, guy, that sucks for you. Maybe you're just a kid at heart? Sorry.... Most of the kids I dealt with and their parents recall "when they caught diabetes." Did that happen to you? That is, you got sick, next thing you knew, you were in the ER?
Datsun310Guy wrote: Sometime I'll tell you about when I sweated Mike Ditka at O'Hare airport.
And then I'll tell you about when I caddied for Mike Ditka Jr.
Dr. Hess wrote: Huh. Well, guy, that sucks for you. Maybe you're just a kid at heart? Sorry.... Most of the kids I dealt with and their parents recall "when they caught diabetes." Did that happen to you? That is, you got sick, next thing you knew, you were in the ER?
Went from 180lbs to 133lbs in 2 months. Drinking 5 gallons of water every day and bladder busting urination every 2 hours, no matter what. I knew I had it. Refused to believe it. Denial is incredibly powerful. Didn't make it to the ER, but 2 more weeks, and I would probably died. A1Cs couldn't read my blood sugars. It was pegged. Got on insulin and took the treatment very serious. In 3 months my A1C was 5.2, which is considered normal.
It sucks, but, I imaging death is moar suxor.
AS, do you recall having some type of viral infection like a cold or the flu just prior to that 2 month period?
Ancient medical texts cover this, BTW. It is usually "If their urine tastes sweet, walk away, they'll die."
In reply to Dr. Hess:
Are you saying a viral infection can cause dibeetus?
It's a theory. I suspect this (Type I, AKA "Juvenile Diabetes", AKA "Insulin Dependent Diabetes"):
Virus hits you. Your immune system cranks up to whack the virus. The antibodies that whack that virus just happen to also perfectly fit the cells in your pancreas that produce insulin, attaching to them and signaling your immune system to whack them too. Now you have no cells that produce insulin, your body won't pull sugar into the rest of the cells, your sugars go through the roof, you die.
So, that's my theory. Like ALL of science, it's a theory, based on observations.
In reply to Dr. Hess:
I had read a very interesting piece about that back when the wife's diabetes started getting bad. I forget where I saw it but it went into pretty good detail about viruses triggering it in adults. I don't recall anything about tinkle tasting though.
Is she Type I or Type II, Wally?
You have to read the old medical books for the tinkle tasting parts. Like 6K year old medical books. I have one. Amazing how much has not changed. They didn't have a mass-spec back then. They did have a tongue, though. Other stuff like "If the bone is sticking out through the skin, put some ghee (clarified butter) on it, they'll be fine." And plastic surgery techniques still used today.
mtn wrote:Dr. Hess wrote: Type I diabetes onset at 33? That's interesting. RIP MTM.Interesting, but not unheard of. Although I'd assume that it was onset earlier than that and only diagnosed at 33.
No, she would not have survived.
She was not a juvenile diabetic. She was an adult onset insulin dependent diabetic. She was very talented, I spent many hours enjoying her programs, sad to see her go.
In reply to Dr. Hess:
Hers is type 2 but with her other existing kidney and other problems she'd had since birth the told her it was only a matter of time before she developed it and she went on to become insulin dependent fairly quickly.
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