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Student Discovers
He gets up every morning just
like anybody else does, but that
is where a lot of similarity ends.
He goes to his refrigerator
and takes out a small vial. He
then reaches in his drawer and
removes a syringe-needle unit.
He fills the syringe with insulin
and inserts the needle into his
leg.
“Ouch, that hurt,” he says.
Some days his “shot" hurts and
some days it doesn’t. But
everyday for the rest of his life
Mike Pendleton will go through
that same routine for Mike is a
sugar diabetic afflicted with a
disorder called “diabetes
mellitus.”
Mike is a 19-year-old English
major from Marietta. By taking
overloads he should graduate
from West Georgia in the fall of
1977. He has an academic
average of 3.3 and writes for the
West Georgian. Last year the
student played on the college
soccer club and worked on the
Chieftain.
Has diabetes stopped Mike
from leading an active life? By
no means. Although he has had
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education; Dr. Edith Maxwell,
association professor of
mathematics; Thurmond
Tillman, president of the
Student Government As
sociation; and other students,
Anne Townsend and Sanford
Holliway.
According to President
Maurice Townsend, the
reassignment of Dr. Adams to
another position is pending
approval of the Chancellor’s
office.
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‘Diabetics Can Still Have Fun ’
diabetes since he was ten, it
hasn’t curtailed the things he
likes to do. Mike loves sports
and competition of any type, he
said. “I wish I had more time to
participate in the intramural
program this year because I
enjoyed it a lot last year,” Mike
said. His favorite sport is
baseball and he has been m
summer leagues and played on
his high school team.
Diabetes did almost stop him
from going to New Mexico to
play in the Connie Mack
Baseball World Series when he
was 17. His parents were
worried that he would not eat
right during the trip, but he did
go and played in what he said
was “the most exciting thing
ever to happen to me.” He made
the journey without any
diabetic complications.
According to the student,
diabetes requires strict dieting
and careful planning in
everyday life and when sports
activities are thrown in it
becomes even more com
plicated. Exercise works like
insulin by using up the sugar in
the body. If a diabetic plans on
could not announce the specific
post Dr. Adams will be moved
to, he did say that Dean Adams’
new position will allow him to
fulfill his professional interests,
which lie in more academic
areas.
While Dr. Townsend said that
the committee members have
liberty to select any candidates,
he said that he did remind the
members to be “mindful of the
qualifications of women and
minority members and that
they should give these people
careful consideration.”
having a vigorous day he needs
less insulin. If a diabetic doesn’t
figure his diet, insulin, and
exercise right he may go into
insulin shock.
Mike has only gone into in
sulin shock once, he said. It
wasn't during a soccer or
baseball game but while
sleeping “I got up, ate break
fast, and took my shot. I then
went back to bed and that is the
last thing I remembered that
day,” Mike said. He wasn’t sure
what caused the insulin shock
and said he woke up in the
hospital around 8 p m that
night.
Mike said it is hard to stay on
his diet at West Georgia. “I am
supposed to have some type of
fruit at each meal (usually
orange juice) but fruit isn’t
served at lunch or supper by the
ARA food service.” Mike keeps
fruit juice in his refrigerator at
his dorm room.
“My diet isn’t the only thing
that bothers me,” he said. His
future worries him more than
anything. Diabetics encounter
health problems at an earlier
age than most ‘‘normal”
people. "For instance,” Mike
said, "there is a good chance
that I could lose my vision
before I’m 30 if I don’t take
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myself.’’
Another thing that bothers
Mike is his future as a father.
Mike is engaged and plans on
getting married in November.
The problem is that any
children his future wife has may
also have diabetes. “I’m not
sure I want to have any children
if they have to go through what I
have to go through,” Mike said.
He and his fiance have talked
this possibility over many times
and have just about decided to
take the chance and pray their
children won’t have diabetes
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"Diabetes isn’t a tormenting
type of affliction,” Mike said,
“but it is something that you
have to deal with everyday. You
have to take your insulin and
you have to try and stay on your
diet. If you don’t, you’ll either
die or end up in some hospital
worse off than you were to begin
with. I choose to try and enjoy
life and at the same time enjoy
being alive, even though I can’t
do some things in life other
people do.”
For Mike Pendleton, diabetes
is just something he has to live
with and make the best of.
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