the holie one
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Hi Yes I've finally joined in. Lots to say and look out for the book !!!
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Pumper_Sue
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Welcome to the forum 🙂 Another 17 years and you can claim your long service medal
trophywench
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Welcome to the forum 🙂 Another 17 years and you can claim your long service medal
Is it still only 50 years, Sue?
Pumper_Sue
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As far as I know yes. The reason given many years ago for stopping the medals when achieving 25 years was because so many people were living longer with diabetes.
It's amazing how many are reaching 50/60/70 years plus now on insulin.
Not sure but think the Joslin centre still issues them at earlier dates.
trophywench
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Made me cry when I read ages ago that the first live births to T1 ladies were caused to happen in the QE in Birmingham in the early 1950s. On one of DUK's significant birthdays in Balance they published memoirs from all sorts of folk of how things were with diabetes treatment in the bad old days. This one was from a midwife who'd moved to the QE from an equally large and important hospital in London and she was gobsmacked never having ever heard of a live birth to a T1 mother before, and most certainly never experienced one where she worked - just too many tragic still births. The QE breakthrough involved the ladies being inpatients for the vast majority of their gestational period - the only way the hospital could test their BG intensively enough and deliver correctional doses at the right times and frequency to keep their BG so controlled all the time with the equipment in use at the time. In fact - it was one of them there clinical trials that University Medical Schools tend to get up to - and WOW!! have we generally not profited from that one ever since?
I was born in 1950 and from diagnosis in 1972 up to his final retirement from Medicine my consultant was actually one of the teaching in diabetes Professors for Bham Uni Med School at the QE and it turned out he was one of the diabetes consultants involved at the time. Unfortunately he'd not only retired to his other love, trees, and moved south to be in charge of one of Kew's or the RHA's specialist arboretums/national collections outside of London, but was also recently deceased by the time I found this out. I'd still love to hear loads more about it - fascinating.
It absolutely wasn't the 50th anniversary of the (then) BDA cos that was quite recently before my diagnosis. 75 years maybe?
@Gwen Diabetes UK - when are DUK 100? Would love to get an award the same year!
I was born in 1950 and from diagnosis in 1972 up to his final retirement from Medicine my consultant was actually one of the teaching in diabetes Professors for Bham Uni Med School at the QE and it turned out he was one of the diabetes consultants involved at the time. Unfortunately he'd not only retired to his other love, trees, and moved south to be in charge of one of Kew's or the RHA's specialist arboretums/national collections outside of London, but was also recently deceased by the time I found this out. I'd still love to hear loads more about it - fascinating.
It absolutely wasn't the 50th anniversary of the (then) BDA cos that was quite recently before my diagnosis. 75 years maybe?
@Gwen Diabetes UK - when are DUK 100? Would love to get an award the same year!
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