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Doing it for DWED!

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Off to do the do now Alan - well done again.
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Northerner said:
Thank you Suze 🙂 I was really shocked when Jacq told me about it and the work the charity do to help people find the right care in a system that (very surprisingly, or maybe not) doesn't have the right sort of linked-up care that is needed.

Don't worry - I won't let you forget! 🙂
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I went to my diabetes team for help, eventually after suffering for years. They were very supportive and wanted to offer me counselling with their counsellor specifically for diabetics and eating, but they'd just had their funding pulled. I really felt for the DSN who really wanted to help me. I went to my drs instead to get referral but he just asked me why I thought my eating and diabetes were linked...as if I was mad. I went back to my DSN and it was then she had met with Jacq from DWED and so she was able to put me in contact with them.

Often professionals see lots suffering with diabulimia and just treat them as if they were bulimic - which very often doesn't work. You need professionals who understand that the diabetes and eating disorder and/or insulin ommission are all connected.

This is such a serious condition and people need to understand this is very real, and very dangerous. The support from DWED given to people suffering is life changing, and saves lifes.

I would also like to say thank you from me personally to everyone who has donated. I still benefit from their support and services.

I've also been pleasantly shocked by the number of people who also seem to have some experience of diabulimia and the number of people willing to support the cause - it is absolutely fantastic.

and now I'll stop as I'm making myself cry!
 
I echo everything you say Katie. And I too am overwhelmed by the generosity of people - in less than 24 hours I am already up to 52% of my target 🙂
 
It's inevitable that diabetics, of any variety, will have a strange and distorted relationship with food, since we are forced to deny certain things, eat others when we don't want and assess it as if it were a 'medicine'.

I'd never heard of DWED until last year, or of diabulimia, but it didn't surprise me that many suffer with it. Well done Katie for getting the help and well done to DWED and to Alan, for giving people the support they need.

Rob
 
Alan....Just read your blog about your run, I'm worn out after that journey 🙂

The generosity comes not only for the charity, but for a popular and well liked friend to us all.

Best wishes
John.
 
ukjohn said:
Alan....Just read your blog about your run, I'm worn out after that journey 🙂

The generosity comes not only for the charity, but for a popular and well liked friend to us all.

Best wishes
John.
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Thank you John 🙂 You'd better have a bit of a lie down now! 😉
 
Just wanted to give this one a bump so that it stays near the top.

A great cause and, as Rob says, not one that people who have had diabetes for donkeys years will necessarily have heard of.

Well done Alan for your efforts - spaniels and all!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Just wanted to give this one a bump so that it stays near the top.

A great cause and, as Rob says, not one that people who have had diabetes for donkeys years will necessarily have heard of.

Well done Alan for your efforts - spaniels and all!
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Haha! Thanks Mike 😉 Very annoyed with my BG levels though! What's all this about exercise helping BG? When I got up I was 4.4, had one slice of Burgen with 6 units novorapid and two hours later I'm 8.2 - not a bad number to start my run on. However, when I get back I'm 10.8, and now, six hours after injecting I'm 8.8! I don't think it's my lantus because I actually had a hypo on that last night (a 3.8). Perhaps it's because I'm recovering from a cold and the running caused extra stress. 🙄

p.s. now getting perilously close to having to reveal the surprise 😱
 
Are you running in an outift?.....or without one!😱
 
Donated! Good luck Alan. If I get one of the jobs I have applied for in the next few weeks I will donate another ?10, keep your fingers crossed 🙂
 
Natalie123 said:
Donated! Good luck Alan. If I get one of the jobs I have applied for in the next few weeks I will donate another ?10, keep your fingers crossed 🙂
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Thank you Natalie, very kind of you 🙂 I hope you get the job you want most (especially now I have a vested interest! 😉)
 
Very best of luck from Millie and me 🙂
 
Hee hee, I really want this one too. It sounds great but I don't want to get my hopes up just yet.
 
Just made donation, I too had not heard of this before. I read Sians page and it is heartbreaking. Good luck Alan
 
CarolK said:
Just made donation, I too had not heard of this before. I read Sians page and it is heartbreaking. Good luck Alan
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Thank you Carol 🙂 It is heartbreaking, but it also illustrates what a wonderful young woman she was and how much people loved her.
 
Northerner said:
p.s. now getting perilously close to having to reveal the surprise 😱
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And no bottling out now and pretending that it was 'running in an amusing hat' all along...

We want the real surprise 🙂
 
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