In alt.support.diabetes Jefferson > wrote:
> Alan wrote:

>>>I will have to come back later. The twins have a birthday party.

>> It would be nice if you could bring yourself to speak less
>> pompous scientific words, so that the rest of us can
>> understand what you're saying.
>>
>> That might help a great many more people. . . .!

> I was attempting to respond to Chris Malcolm and I didn't think what I
> said was as abstract as what he said.

It wasn't, but it did use more technical terms than mine did.

> I sorry that you feel this way, but I suppose that in my efforts to try
> and understand type 2 diabetes I have become somewhat of a freak. I put
> together most of the following about 4 years ago: GLOSSARY OF
> BIOCHEMICAL, MEDICAL CHEMISTRY, CELL BIOLOGY, AND DIABETIC TERMS -
> http://users.adelphia.net/~fwroy/glossary.html. As I was reading
> scientific and medical journals I would add more to the list, but have
> largerly neglected to maintain it. I did do this glossary for anyone
> but myself and therefore it is a work-in-progress. I need to update it
> some more, but there are some new search aids in it for anyone that
> wants their understanding beyond the elementary.

> Understand that I am a 71 year old man without much scientific
> background who was diagnosed almost 6 years ago. I came into what ever
> knowledge I have through the back door so to speak since I have taken no
> formal biochemistry, physiology, etc. courses.

Impressive! There are some people who think that's impossible at the
age of thirty :-)

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Chris Malcolm DoD #205
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