{"id":17761,"date":"2017-08-15T14:12:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/?p=17761\/"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T16:15:00","slug":"a-story-of-community-at-langs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/fr\/a-story-of-community-at-langs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story of Community at Langs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row padding_top=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb padding_bottom=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\u00a0\u00bbA Story of Community at Langs\u00a0\u00bb font_container=\u00a0\u00bbtag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23000000&Prime; use_theme_fonts=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-82340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cachc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Doug-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\u00ab\u00a0I get kind of emotional when I talk about Langs.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think community is important to the whole thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Douglas doesn\u2019t know exactly when he became a diabetic. He was diagnosed during a pre-op blood test for a hernia operation. What followed was ten years of uncontrolled disease management which left him with unending thirst, sleepless nights, and pain in his lower extremities which made movement difficult. His doctor put him on anti-depressants. Last January he could barely walk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI guess because I felt so bad maybe he thought I was depressed.\u201d explains Douglas. \u201cI wasn\u2019t depressed because of that, I was depressed because my body just wasn\u2019t working right and I was in a lot of pain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In desperation he changed doctors. His life was quickly transformed. \u201cSix weeks.\u201d says Douglas incredulously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s all new. Like I say, in January I couldn\u2019t walk without assistance and then I met my new doctor in February. In March I began to feel better and she said \u2018it\u2019s time for you to go to Langs.\u2019 In my doctor\u2019s opinion every doctor that has a new patient with diabetes should be sent to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.langs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Langs (a Community Health Centre based in Cambridge, Ontario)<\/a><\/strong> for an education. She\u2019s a firm believer in Langs. I was reluctant to go to tell you the truth. I missed the first couple of appointments.\u201d admits Douglas sheepishly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During his first session Douglas sat in a room full of other diabetics and realized that the nurse who was facilitating wasn\u2019t just spouting stats and information. The session was interactive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYou instantly bonded with everybody in the room because they\u2019re all there for the same thing and that\u2019s when you realize, hey I\u2019m not alone here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After the first visit he couldn\u2019t wait to go back. The Langs team worked with him to get his medicines on track. They \u2018hooked him up\u2019 with a foot doctor and with Christine the nurse for a one on one. A coach phones him once a week. He took a course in nutrition. Currently he is using a chart to monitor his medications. In the past he had no baseline for meds. The best thing says Douglas is how Langs contacts his family doctor. \u201cIt\u2019s like going to the same office.\u201d he marvels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThey have a great track there that I\u2019m going to use when the weather is poor. I\u2019m gonna join one of those pole walking classes. I can phone up anybody if I have any questions. I went to see Kyle the foot guy and he looked at my feet and gave me some creams and so forth. And I never had anything like that before. I feel like a king.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition Douglas joined a Langs study group, not because it would help him specifically, but with all the struggling that he went through and continues to go through, he wants the information he contributes to help others down the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s so nice to have that support group behind you cause it\u2019s a nasty disease to fight on your own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Douglas wants people to know what a lifesaving experience Langs has been. His life has already improved immeasurably but he\u2019s going continue to go because he\u2019s sure there will be stumbling blocks along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn January I couldn\u2019t walk\u201d says Douglas with wonder in his voice. \u201cI needed help to get in and out of the car. I couldn\u2019t make the stairs. And now I actually walk from my place of residence to Langs which is like about four kilometres. I enjoy the walking so so much cause walking is new to me. I feel like I just got up out of a wheelchair. It\u2019s like a miracle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row padding_top=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb padding_bottom=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\u00a0\u00bbA Story of Community at Langs\u00a0\u00bb font_container=\u00a0\u00bbtag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23000000&Prime; use_theme_fonts=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column_text] \u00ab\u00a0I get kind of emotional when I talk about Langs.\u00a0I think community is important to the whole thing.\u201d Douglas doesn\u2019t know exactly when he became a diabetic. He was diagnosed during a pre-op blood test for a hernia operation. 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