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Good evening I'm new to this forum.

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I'm getting older every day. And it doesn’t look like my diabetes os getting cured any ‘10 years from now’ soon 😛

How long have you been living with diabetes @Builderboy

Do you take medication or manage with diet and exercise?

Are there any things that you are finding particularly tricky as the years roll by?
 
My late mother in law said to both of us when we were about 50, Old age doesn't come on its own you know! - just hang on there mother - we're 50 not 5; both my parents and my older sister were already deceased, Pete's dad had well pre-deceased his mum, you've currently got terminal bowel cancer; for what reason do you imagine we don't know that? We laughed though rather than say that; then I said Thanks for that cheerful message mum!

I'm not that much your junior so we're both aging with diabetes - but dunno about you, I still travel hopefully along life's path and usually my glass is half full despite the aches pains and other things life throws at us all. Last week, we both attended the Zoom AGM of a local Prostate Cancer charity we're both on the committee of; the next two days were Zoom coffee mornings; then another different committee Zoom meeting. Yesterday sitting here knock knock on the front door and a lad Pete and his first wife used to foster and he'd lost touch with had come to see him. (now 53, LOL)

Pete's just applied for and got his first Blue Badge, so I guess the world now needs exploring from a different viewpoint as we've never used Disabled Parking locations as waypoints to navigate by before!

Life's still what we make it, however old we are!
 
Welcome to the forum @Builderboy

Is there anything specific that is worrying you?
As others have said, this is a manageable condition and as we get older we just need to carry on managing it, along with the other joys of old age.
 
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