as a diabetic myself, it sucks at first. I'm type 2 hyperglycemic
my meds are $35 a month (with insurance), and I can eat on the road if I'm careful
otherwise I have to shop walmart in the *GAGS* Diet *Spits* section of the freezer and nuker-wave while I'm out on the road

doc says if I lost 100 pounds and exercised I probably wouldn't even need meds
so yeah, I'm fucked.

I'm not sure what she's got exactly... I was literally in the middle of 3 things when she called while she was at the doctors office. I was eating lunch with my left hand, replying to a work e-mail with my right hand while talking to someone and then she called. :/ I've got to call her and find out some more information. My mother needs to loose weight. I'm pretty sure that if she was a bit more active and changed her diet slightly that she might be fine. But with her nerve damage and arthritis and other issues, exercising isn't the easiest thing for her.

As far as the medicine, she doesn't have insurance exactly.. I think she has medicaid or medicare or something like that. Not sure what it covers. But even if it was $25 a month, they can't afford that.
They are on food stamps and go to the food bank and that's not always enough to get them through the month. And my mother is a very frugal shopper. It's just more stress and worry that I didn't need right now and I don't want my parents to suffer any more... they have had it really rough since both my parents have been out of work and without a functioning car with very little options for public transportation where they live, shit is hard all the time.

I really hope that things can turn around soon for all of us so that it's not a constant bad news tidal wave every day.