Liberty Medical helping you to manage

your diabetes and get the supplies and

support you need so you can live a

better life.

Good morning. I'm Wilford Bbrimley and I'd

like to talk to you for a few minutes

about diabetes. Actually, about diabetes

and how it's affected me in my life.

I'll start when I was first diagnosed.

I was scared to death i was experiencing

symptoms that were strange and

unfamiliar to me. For instance, I had an

unquenchable thirst. My tongue felt like

a horseshoe rasp. I would lose my vision.

I was losing my energy. I was getting up

every 15 or 20 minutes all through the

night, so I wasn't getting any rest and

as a result of all these things, I lost

all my energy. And I was I was scared.

A man doesn't like to admit he was scared but I truly

was. I wasn't afraid to die.

I knew that was coming to all of us but

what I was afraid of was that I might

have to live a long time feel like I

felt and I really wasn't interested in

that. So finally at the urging of my

family, the ones who love me the most,

I went to see a doctor, and he explained

things to me in a language that I

understood. And i think the most

important thing he said to me was:

Wilford if you want to get better I'm

going to give you a few things to do and

the more attention you pay to these

things and more diligent you are,

the faster you'll get better and the better

you'll feel. And ladies and gentlemen

that's exactly the way it's been

through the years the closer I paid

attention to the instructions of my

doctor, the better I feel. Now I'm not

perfect and I've slipped up and I've

eaten ice cream and apple pie and I've

done things I shouldn't do. But i want to

tell you when I don't eat apple pie and

I don't eat ice cream and I eat the

foods that I'm supposed to eat and I do

my exercises and I take my medicine and

I do the procedures that I was

instructed to do I do feel better.

I would encourage all of you to find a

doctor that you trust and understand.

I'm not doing it without help.

I'm surrounded by people who love me who

care for me and who want me to feel better.

Now, one of the things i have

learned to do is laugh at myself kind of

loosen up kind of relax about the whole

thing. You know, having type-2 adult-onset

diabetes not the worst thing in the world.

You know people do learn to live

with this and along the trail you're

going to find some things that

you ought to be laughing at.

So, I would encourage you loosen up.

There's a line in a song: ♬ "Forget your" ♬

♬ "troubles come on get happy." ♬

♬ "Laughs all your cares away. "♬

You know it's not a bad idea once in a while. I guess

at this point i want to tell you about

an affiliation that I formed along the

way along my path of recovery if you

will

I was very very fortunate to be engaged

by a company liberty medical and myself

and my best friend and partner dick

Richards have over the years been able

to help produce commercials or ads or

endorsement whatever the name you want

to give them and and in doing so we put

out some information that's invaluable

to

diabetics Liberty Medical is a company

that staffed with people that are

willing to talk to you about your

situation that are willing to help you

in your dilemma and it is a dilemma

ladies and gentlemen when you're first

diagnosed you'll have a myriad of

questions and what we will do is help

you find solutions to these problems

answers to these questions i like to say

we will we will help you go where we

have been and in doing so you'll you'll

find that life has some wonderful things

to offer you there are so many new ways

for you to treat your diabetes there are

people more people qualified today to

help you and give you accurate and valid

information than there were 30 years ago

the comparison is unreal

in closing I would simply like to say to

you do the best you can with what you

got and and be thankful that you're in

no worse shape than you are and if

you'll obey these simple rules and do

these simple things I promise you you'll

feel better see if I'm not right

Thanks for your time. Have a good day.