trophywench
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Goher
The reason people seem 'touchy' about 'Type' is because things like the CCG telling you that just because you've had your whole pancreas removed (eg cancer or whatever reason) doesn't make you entitled to the same things as us sainted auto immune Type 1s happen to be. Eg Susan couldn't possibly be entitled to have all that money for an insulin pump spent on her when she wasn't a real Type 1. Good grief - hasn't the NHS spent enough money already operating on her and prescribed substances to enable her to live - how much more help does she expect?
She's had to fight so hard to get what she NEEDS to have to stay alive - involving her MP and all sorts!
Her type of diabetes has now been classified as Type 3 - there wasn't such a category for her type before because the people it affected all died very nasty deaths instead, so it wasn't necessary. That's a shocking position to find yourself in, isn't it ? We don't know what type to call you Mr/Mrs Bloggs cos we haven't saved anyone's life for this long before .....
It's a bit like all the gutter press that all T2s including all the dead skinny ones shouldn't have 'done this to themselves in the first place cos whatever anyone tells me to the contrary - I'd rather believe that' - but WORSE !
The reason people seem 'touchy' about 'Type' is because things like the CCG telling you that just because you've had your whole pancreas removed (eg cancer or whatever reason) doesn't make you entitled to the same things as us sainted auto immune Type 1s happen to be. Eg Susan couldn't possibly be entitled to have all that money for an insulin pump spent on her when she wasn't a real Type 1. Good grief - hasn't the NHS spent enough money already operating on her and prescribed substances to enable her to live - how much more help does she expect?
She's had to fight so hard to get what she NEEDS to have to stay alive - involving her MP and all sorts!
Her type of diabetes has now been classified as Type 3 - there wasn't such a category for her type before because the people it affected all died very nasty deaths instead, so it wasn't necessary. That's a shocking position to find yourself in, isn't it ? We don't know what type to call you Mr/Mrs Bloggs cos we haven't saved anyone's life for this long before .....
It's a bit like all the gutter press that all T2s including all the dead skinny ones shouldn't have 'done this to themselves in the first place cos whatever anyone tells me to the contrary - I'd rather believe that' - but WORSE !
