Helper and Seeker
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hello Everybody,
Just wanted to say hi from sunny or not so sunny Bournemouth which is on the central south coast of the UK in the county of Dorset.
Have battled with Diabetes all my life am still a Type 2 on Pioglitazone and Rapaglinide tablets only each day. Officially diagnosed in 1990.
Mum became Diabetic when pregnant with me .... all my fault hee hee
She used to be treasurer of the local group for many years and before the local hospitals used to put all new insulin dependant Diabetics through a hypo it was my Mum and often me in tow at 3am in the morning legging it out doing home visits and telling eople what to do over the phone.
My Mum then started meeting with people in their own homes and supervising a controlled Hypo as the hospitals refused to do this....... now this is unheard of and sounds horrific and so stupid but back in the 80's thats how things were done sadly.
So have had a very knowledgeable if somewhat automatic dis respect for so called Diabetic specialists until they prove to me they actually know what they are talking about abd are not total quacks.
Sadly ignorance is still very much amongst our medical fields of expertise (she says tongue in cheek)
Only last year my Mum had a car accident which the care she got from the ambulance staff and the A & E staff could of caused her to be admitted when all she needed was a quick xray nothing major, but I felt I could of lost her due to their lack of knowledge.
I am not afraid to challenge and I do regularly all the professionals I deal with and will continue to do so.
I voluntarilly give general basic Diabetes awareness talks to groups via the peopel I meet and help and hope to get involved with the speakers volunteer program that Diabetes UK runs.
I do support sessions for referrals from friends who need relationship counselling, weight loss, food addiction and relationships with food etc along with any other things and the odd bit of doggie fostering when various rescues need help in an emergency. This year I hope to expand and build my business to advertise locally rather than just helping people I know.
Looking forward to learning from everybody and also being able to help where I can also.
D x
Just wanted to say hi from sunny or not so sunny Bournemouth which is on the central south coast of the UK in the county of Dorset.
Have battled with Diabetes all my life am still a Type 2 on Pioglitazone and Rapaglinide tablets only each day. Officially diagnosed in 1990.
Mum became Diabetic when pregnant with me .... all my fault hee hee
She used to be treasurer of the local group for many years and before the local hospitals used to put all new insulin dependant Diabetics through a hypo it was my Mum and often me in tow at 3am in the morning legging it out doing home visits and telling eople what to do over the phone.
My Mum then started meeting with people in their own homes and supervising a controlled Hypo as the hospitals refused to do this....... now this is unheard of and sounds horrific and so stupid but back in the 80's thats how things were done sadly.
So have had a very knowledgeable if somewhat automatic dis respect for so called Diabetic specialists until they prove to me they actually know what they are talking about abd are not total quacks.
Sadly ignorance is still very much amongst our medical fields of expertise (she says tongue in cheek)
Only last year my Mum had a car accident which the care she got from the ambulance staff and the A & E staff could of caused her to be admitted when all she needed was a quick xray nothing major, but I felt I could of lost her due to their lack of knowledge.
I am not afraid to challenge and I do regularly all the professionals I deal with and will continue to do so.
I voluntarilly give general basic Diabetes awareness talks to groups via the peopel I meet and help and hope to get involved with the speakers volunteer program that Diabetes UK runs.
I do support sessions for referrals from friends who need relationship counselling, weight loss, food addiction and relationships with food etc along with any other things and the odd bit of doggie fostering when various rescues need help in an emergency. This year I hope to expand and build my business to advertise locally rather than just helping people I know.
Looking forward to learning from everybody and also being able to help where I can also.
D x
