About Me

About me

Born Dorothea Dale Cocot in 1962, I was raised on an old country road by my loving parents surrounded by a close family and a few good friends with the need to help people and/or animals.

After graduating from high school and attending college for a year, I decided to move to New Jersey where I married in 1987. I was working on a farm taking care of Standard bred horses. I loved caring for the horses but decided that the racing business was not for me so I decided to try my hand at being a nurses’ aid.

Before I knew it I was graduating from a vocational school in 1989 and very pregnant. After giving birth to Chelsea, I became a LPN in 1990 and worked on an orthopedic surgical floor as a new grad. I loved taking care of patients and still do.

A few years later we moved to another area of New Jersey to be closer to my husband’s job. In 1992 I gave birth to Amanda but still continued my career in nursing. I also noticed that the more experience I received, the more I wanted to do. So I went to college and graduated as a RN in 2005. After graduation I started working in an emergency room in Red Bank, NJ and found my niche.

In every situation and with every patient I found myself not only being a nurse but an educator. I noticed a majority of the illnesses I came across where directly related to the types of food that the patient was eating. I also noticed that many of these patients were diabetics.

My husband became a diabetic at the age of four and needed to take insulin everyday. His mother was very regimental and never seemed to involve him in choosing the right foods or how to prepare them. Because of this he hated to eat, especially if there was any preparation involved. This, I believe, along with unwillingness to change, lead to his death in 2018.

At the time of his passing we were living in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. I worked in a local ER and was amazed at how may patients both young and old were diabetics. Living with a diabetic taught me many things about diet and the basic care of diabetes but I realized that I needed and wanted to learn more.

THANK YOU GOOGLE…..for giving me the opportunity to look up medications, research related problems, and help people find whatever information they might be able to use to help. themselves.

Then it became time to help me. I had been on and off a low carb “diet” for20 years. Gaining and losing weight like the “Yo-Yo” everyone talks about. What I found out was that when I ate carbs from potatoes, cakes…etc, I felt terrible. Everything you’ve read about the symptoms of overeating carbs is true with me.

I’ve been changing my lifestyle slowly and surely with the intent to feel better mentally and physically, not so much for weight loss. As I’m sure you have all heard, “slow and steady wins the race.” I consider myself successful in this change and would like to share with all of you the ups, downs and how to’s of a lifestyle change along with real stories from my nursing life. Reading about what “could be” on both the positive and negative sides may just what you need to change for the better.