I want to share my life with all of you since arriving in the Philippines. I have been here for a month already and since arriving here my health has gone downhill. I am diabetic and when i left South Africa my health was perfect. I take my sugar everyday using a glucometer and the reading on average is 25 or 450 and normally it is 7 or 126.

I did start eating rice here but in small quantities well a cup with all meals. The problem is that the rice is so rich in carbohydrates that this is the reason why my sugar is so high. My fiancee sweet marsha who is always very concerned with the way i look noticed many welts all over my body and it itched like hell, i thought i had Dingue and eventually managed to persuade me to see the doctor little did i know that she had arranged an appointment with a Diabetic Specialist.

The doctor gave me a full examination but for some unknown reason my sugar was extremely high on this day 612 and bordering on a diabetic coma well thanks to my honey she prevented me from being admitted into hospital. Filipinas are so wonderful, loving and caring toward their partners.

After the examination my doctor a woman doctor i may add told me that after 25 years of having diabetes i now have to include insulin in my meds and now i have become insulin dependent too and sweet marsha administers the shot for me because i am too scared to inject myself lol.
The welts i thought were caused by mosquitoes but in actual fact it was from the increase in sugar in my body, thanks to modern medicine there are a number of anti itch remedies and creams to dry up the welts

So doctor says to me to stop smoking and no more rice, makes sense But i love the Philippines sooo much it is such a great place to be and i have met so many people and have more friends than i ever had at home