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Coping With Diabetes
Coping with diabetes typically involves a combination of physical treatments and psychological adjustments.
Over time, diabetes can affect the kidney, eyes and other vital organs and systems. The kidneys may filter less efficiently. Eyesight may become less sharp. But all those physical circumstances can be managed through careful diet, exercise, and (if needed) drugs.
But coping with the disease and its effects involves another dimension, one less easy to quantify and treat, and one which has both physical and mental consequences.
Tina Radcliffe spent many years caring for and teaching newly diagnosed diabetics in the home setting. Her other experiences include ... .. 
