
SO here goes, my story in a nut shell, and the reason why I am asking for a little help. My entire story would take a book so maybe the full story can wait. It basically all started on March 3, 2000, we had to rush my daughter to the ER and found out she had type 1 diabetes, not a week to relive. It was a life changing event to say the least. After spending a week in the Phoenix Childrens Hospital my wife and I were expected to become instant nurses and nutritionists so we could take care of our daughter. Learned a lot and started questioning my last six months of feeling like crap. Decided to take a blood sugar test and I was 452. No, that cant be right, wash my hands again and try again and it was 456, to make a long story short we found out that I was a type 1 diabetic the week after we found out about my daughter. So we have had type 1 diabetes for 19 years, 11 months and change. The beginning was more about taking care of my daughter than it was about me. I felt like there is no way this could do anything to me and I did not take care of myself for quite some time. Due to that and having type 1 diabetes for nearly 20 years now, I have had my fair share of conditions happen to me from poor control of my blood sugars in the beginning. Last year was the hardest year I have personally gone thru in my life. It seems like I spent as much time in the hospital as I did in my home and I work for myself from home so you can imagine that is a lot. The first week of June I was working on my computer and my vision began to cross, I rubbed my eyes and it went away. I got up from my computer and my vision went back to normal. So I was thinking I have just been working to long and my eyes need a break. I decided to drive to town and grab some groceries and give my eyes a break. When I got to the grocery store and was on my way out my vision crossed and my legs went weak and I stumbled to the ground. This time I freaked out a bit and called my doctors office and they said get to the ER as fast as I can. So took myself to the ER, was there for 4 days after finding out I had a stroke and they thought with my symptoms it was also MS. That was the start to my worst year on record. Because of the type 1 diabetes both my daughter and myself suffer from teeth problems and we have a very hard time fighting infection. I have been in the hospital at least 8 times since June, my bad teeth were causing infection, which was making me sick and causing my gastroparesis (paralyzed stomach caused by diabetes) to not allow me to keep anything I ate down. Going to the ER and being in the hospital is just like trying to fix my diabetes with a band aid. Unless I don’t get these teeth out of my head I am going to live in the ER until I don’t. Every time I am in diabetic Ketoacidosis I have about a 40% chance I am not coming back. Those odds are not to my favor. So I need to get dentures, I don’t make enough money to afford dentures, what am I going to do because if I don’t get these teeth pulled I am not going to live. My family has gotten together and in September of this year I had all my upper teeth pulled. It takes a healthy person months to heal from having all their teeth pulled and someone like myself it is taking much longer, I have been in the hospital a few times since I had them pulled, but as of Feb, 1 2019 I can say I do not think I have any infection left in my head. I have not been in the hospital since December, almost missed Christmas from my last visit, but I feel like I was able to beat the infection part of my health issues and if I were not being proactive and pushing for answers I might not be here today. Now I have plenty of more issues. The stroke has caused balance issues, vision issues, my entire left side is numb and feels like pins and needles. My daughter and myself suffer from a condition called Diabetic. My daughter has it bad in her legs and feet, and I have it bad in my feet, legs and starting to get it in my hands. My feet are numb yet hypersensitive, makes no sense until something touches your foot and every feels like 80 grit sand paper. The neuropathy is one of the things on a long list that either my daughter or myself suffer from just from having this disease for nearly 20 years. My wife has many back issues caused by a mountain bike accident and a surgery that did not benefit her in any way. This all happened years ago and she is stuck in bed after doing anything where she uses her back and shoulder. I am a proactive person, I love to stay active to stay young, even with all the problems and pain I have, I live on a small piece of land that is out of a small town. I do not like to ask for help for anything so this is making this whole thing extremely hard for me. I want to be able to try to get better every day. I feel I was right about my teeth and I feel the next step to getting myself and my entire family more healthy is to get a BEMER. If you do not know what BEMER is I can supply the link to a video that will better explain it. It is basically a device that increases the blood flow in your body. Something that I feel will allow me to get back to being better for my family, better for my clients which without them I could not live out in the country and work from home and have my family by my side 24 hours a day. I know that life style isn’t for everyone but it is the right one for me. I do not want it to end and I still want to be able to design things in a timely manner for everyone I do work for. I know the BEMER device can change the health of my entire family, I just cannot afford the cost to get one after having such a bad year last year and still trying to makes ends meet and play catch up. But that is not why we are here. A majority of my issues come down to bad circulation, my legs look as if there are fingers moving around from the inside, neither my daughter or myself have suffered from diabetic foot ulcers but if you look up some images, it is one of the last things we could handle and with better circulation I think we can avoid this from ever happening. Now I need $4290 dollars to purchase the BEMER CLASSIC SET. The classic model has the mat and I believe 1 eye attachment that I hope will benefit my vision. Even if you can only spare a quarter, it all adds up, I am a believer in Karma and do my best everyday to spread only good Karma, maybe this is my good Karma coming back, I know I do not need any more bad luck coming my way. I just want to be the best person I can be for everyone around me and with my health issues it gets more difficult everyday!
Some info on BEMER