A whine about winter/New Mexico

[eleoff at mindspring.com]

Hi Debbie,
Isn't New Mexico called The Land of Enchantment?
Laid back is good...maybe you have less stress than some of us East Coast
types..
I live in the Providence RI area..Have you seen the TV show Providence? And
Providence is quieter and more livable than nearby Boston. Our housing and
costs of living are pretty high here.
I liked the architecture in Albuquerque...and more single level houses there
too..compared to all our New England colonials and Cape Cod houses.
Yes, you are correct about Native Americans and diabetes. I get all these
statistics at work at my Independent Living Center. Native Americans have an
extremely high rate of diabetes....so if any of you are Native American or
even part Native American, your docs should be aware and screening you for
diabetes. I would hope this would be automatic, but so many things are
overlooked by the medical profession..it is important we ourselves mention
everything.
Nice to hear from you,
Susan
-----Original Message-----
From: Dlbelfrey at aol.com <Dlbelfrey at aol.com>
To: Amputee Information Network <amp-l at u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: A whine about winter/New Mexico


>What are the people like???  Well, like anywhere we have the good, the bad
>and the ugly!!!  Our state population is multicultural English, Spanish,
>Mexican, Native American, Black, with a little of everything else thrown
in.
>We don't care what your background is, all are welcome!!!  One of the
hardest
>things for anyone who moves in from other areas is to get use to the "land
of
>manana (tomorrow)" attitude that we have.  We are great believers in what
we
>don't get done today will get done tomorrow or sometime in the future,
LOLL.
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>I do understand from talking to several people in the medical profession
that
>we do have a very high rate of amputees due to diabetes being prevalent in
>our Native American population.  One of these fine days when I find some
>copious spare time I'm going to look up those figures.
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>Debbie Batts
>(a little English, Black Dutch, Cherokee and Heinz 57 thrown in)
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>In a message dated 02/05/2000 1:28:53 PM Mountain Standard Time,
>eleoff at mindspring.com writes:
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>> What are the people like in New Mexico? I lived in the Phoenix Arizona
area
>>  for about a year in 1989 with my family and we did not like living
there,