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24 year diaversary today!
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Sprogladite
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Thanks all! 🙂 x
Grannylorraine
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Keep plugging away you have done well. I simple can't imagine what it is like for children and teenagers to be diagnosed.
Sprogladite
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I suspect in some ways it's easier being diagnosed young - I don't remember being "not diabetic" if that makes sense. That being said, I also vividly remember sitting on a couch scared witless holding my injection pen and being physically unable to bring my hand low enough to put the needle in my leg, and my parents trying to physically push my hand down! And in my teenage years I pretended I didn't have diabetes lol. So probably good and bad points to it like there is with adults I would imagine 🙂
trophywench
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I was thinking about this Sprog as I've always thought I was very lucky not getting it as a kid - I still never overdosed on Mars Bars cos money was tight in our house, so they were always a Big Treat anyway along with all sweets, biscuits, choc and if there was eg a trifle you didn't get offered a second helping, in order to leave enough of it for everyone to have some on Day 2.
Fact is - on one jab of mixed, porcine insulin per day - if I didn't jab it in, within an hour or two I'd feel extremely nauseous - I expect I had mega ketones and my BG was very high but you hadn't a clue and you'd hardly cart a pee testing kit to work with you in your handbag! So the knowledge that I was going to feel like that if I didn't 'behave properly' was more than enough to make me comply.
I wonder - because on MDI we (probably) always have some insulin floating about are the symptoms of too little not as instantly vile? although it's undoubtedly a better way of controlling BG - is it a better way for everyone?
Fact is - on one jab of mixed, porcine insulin per day - if I didn't jab it in, within an hour or two I'd feel extremely nauseous - I expect I had mega ketones and my BG was very high but you hadn't a clue and you'd hardly cart a pee testing kit to work with you in your handbag! So the knowledge that I was going to feel like that if I didn't 'behave properly' was more than enough to make me comply.
I wonder - because on MDI we (probably) always have some insulin floating about are the symptoms of too little not as instantly vile? although it's undoubtedly a better way of controlling BG - is it a better way for everyone?
PhoebeC
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A very happy diaversary!!
I love hearing about you long haulers, ha, that you are still doing okay! Brings hope.
I was 16, and a mature 16 at that. I didn't spend years going out all night every night drinking like my peers, just wasn't worth the hassle with D. So I settled down, got married and had a baby young. She wasn't planned but looking back I am so happy with where I have ended up now. There will never be a perfect time for anything as there's pros and cons both ways.
All I think is that it was easier for my parents than someone who was a child at the time. I was at the age I fully took control of myself, nobody has ever had to look after me with it, I've done it all.
It's just the cards we have been dealt.
It would have been better if I could have got it on my deathbed, in my 90s, dying of old age, rather than when I did.
Make sure you have a well deserved treat!
I love hearing about you long haulers, ha, that you are still doing okay! Brings hope.
I was 16, and a mature 16 at that. I didn't spend years going out all night every night drinking like my peers, just wasn't worth the hassle with D. So I settled down, got married and had a baby young. She wasn't planned but looking back I am so happy with where I have ended up now. There will never be a perfect time for anything as there's pros and cons both ways.
All I think is that it was easier for my parents than someone who was a child at the time. I was at the age I fully took control of myself, nobody has ever had to look after me with it, I've done it all.
It's just the cards we have been dealt.
It would have been better if I could have got it on my deathbed, in my 90s, dying of old age, rather than when I did.
Make sure you have a well deserved treat!
trophywench
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Hey Sprog - my husband just looked at what I was reading and said. ' Who's that Lightweight?' LOL - I fell about !
Sprogladite
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Ha, just made me snort at my desk LOL
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