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The One Show

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Northerner

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Good report by Dom Littlewood on the One Show - anyone see it? It was about Type 1 in kids (no doubt they'll talk about Type 2 on the Two Show!:D)
 
damn i was too busy watching big brother's little brother 😉

I'll check it out on iplayer later.
 
katie said:
damn i was too busy watching big brother's little brother 😉

I'll check it out on iplayer later.
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It was a bit random and unexpected - I only switched on to view the lovely Christine Bleakley's arms (I have a thing about her arms...!😱)

Worth a look, and much better, I thought, than the Justin Webb radio programme.
 
Northerner said:
Good report by Dom Littlewood on the One Show - anyone see it? It was about Type 1 in kids (no doubt they'll talk about Type 2 on the Two Show!:D)
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Yep, watched it! Was good. Although the sofa chat did make it sound like controlling diabetes was a doddle! 😛
 
Munjeeta said:
Yep, watched it! Was good. Although the sofa chat did make it sound like controlling diabetes was a doddle! 😛
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Yes, I think she was trying to stress how it could be treated, but it did seem to come across as 'Oh, yes, no problem!' As we've said before, it's a difficult balance between stressing how dangerous the condition can be, and not scaring people too much.

I was a little perturbed the way the doctor on the sofa said, as her final words 'You'll be blind by the time you're 30' and then broke into a huge grin!

(She had just been talking about the importance of looking after your control during your teens)
 
Northerner said:
Yes, I think she was trying to stress how it could be treated, but it did seem to come across as 'Oh, yes, no problem!' As we've said before, it's a difficult balance between stressing how dangerous the condition can be, and not scaring people too much.

I was a little perturbed the way the doctor on the sofa said, as her final words 'You'll be blind by the time you're 30' and then broke into a huge grin!

(She had just been talking about the importance of looking after your control during your teens)
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Yes 😱 But you can afford to be blase if you don't live with it everyday (says the cynic inside...)
 
Northerner said:
I was a little perturbed the way the doctor on the sofa said, as her final words 'You'll be blind by the time you're 30' and then broke into a huge grin!
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I remember being told that by a consultant once, not the most encouraging of things to hear!

I caught some of it but the room was quite noisy at the time so going to catch up on iplayer, looked to be a pretty good piece though.
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lol sorry! It was when I wasn't really looking after myself, think it was an ill thought out attempt at 'tough love'! Kind of worked though, my motivation for good control is often 'to prove that doctor wrong'!
 
aymes said:
lol sorry! It was when I wasn't really looking after myself, think it was an ill thought out attempt at 'tough love'! Kind of worked though, my motivation for good control is often 'to prove that doctor wrong'!
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Hehe. Once i went to the doctors for a non-diabetes related thing (cant even remember what it was now) but he did the same thing. He started saying "I dont want to see you in another 5 years time and you've lost your sight". It scared the bejesus out of me, but he is a really nice doctor so I knew he was just trying to help! Because my HbA1c is about 8 I always thought, 'well it could be worse!' but not anymore, I'm aiming for the magic numbers now :D
 
I'm still new to it, but if I loose my sight in ten to fifeteen years I'll go mad, loose it I would proper! I'm sure I'd adjust, but when I was going through the diagnosis period I had to go into the opticians on the high street, I found that really hard, took a few days to build up the courage, part of me preferred to have diabetes to having bad eyes!? Is that weird?
 
that isnt weird. id rather have diabetes than bad eyes. Isnt the bad part about having diabetes the possible complications?
 
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