Inspiring quotes to do with d?

[shiv]

Hi all,

I'm giving a speech next week at the North East Diabetes Symposium. I've been asked to talk about the transition from paediatric care to adult care as a young person with type 1.

Could you give me any quotes/phrases/lines (preferably ones to do with diabetes) that you have found thought provoking, inspiring, etc? I am going to touch quite heavily on the fact that the 'transition' years are also the years in which we make so many life decisions (ie where to live, go to uni, go travelling, etc) so anything relevant to that would also be great 🙂

Thanks in advance!

Shiv x

 

[Freddie99]

In relation to ignorant and misdiagnosis by GPs:

I told you I was ill - Spike Milligan.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing - Voltaire

Some other stuff:

The tumult and shouting dies,
The Captains and Kings depart.
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and contrite heart.
Rudyard Kipling - Recessional

While men depart of joyful heart
Adventure for to know

Rudyard Kipling - The Song Of The Dead

That's all I can think of for now, more to come when I've got them.

Here's another:

On the bow I stand, west is where I go,
Through the night I plough, still my heart, calculate and pray.
As the compass swings, my will is strong, I will not be led astray.

I steer between the crashing rocks, the sirens call my name.
Lash my hands onto the helm, blood surging with the strain,
I will not fail now as sunrise comes, the darkness left behind.

Both of those are from Iron Maiden's song Ghost Of The Navigator

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I'll just quote this one back at you...

?And even the constant need for decisions might be tolerable, if only the results were predictable. Few things generate burnout like the awful frustration of having followed instructions and done everything just right and still to be failing to get the diabetes into control. At those times it seems no use to continue to try.

Think how discouraging it is to fail at something you really wanted to do. Then consider what it must feel like to be failing at something you didn't want to do in the first place.?

Joan Williams Hoover

I'll try to thionk of something more positive I've read too 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

How about this about peer support from George Simmons' (Ninjabetic) blog... not sure if it's his or something he got elsewhere.

When we sit alone we wonder,
Who could understand?
Why am I am the only one?
When will it end?
Can I get through this?
What if I give up?
Will anyone care?
Do I matter?

When we sit together we hear,
I understand.
You are not alone.
We will get through it together.
Lean on me.
Cry on my shoulder.
I care.
You matter.

 

[FM001]

''Don't let diabetes rule your life but treat it with the respect it deserves''.

Sorry that's the best I can come up with.😱

 

[AJLang]

It might not help your speech but for me the change from paediatric to adult care was incremental it was just part of the normal transition of growing up (for someone who had been diabetic since she was 2)

 

[shiv]

It might not help your speech but for me the change from paediatric to adult care was incremental it was just part of the normal transition of growing up (for someone who had been diabetic since she was 2)

Thanks all 🙂

AJ, my transition was totally different - in that I didn't have a transition, just one day I went to paed, and next appt I went to adults.

 

[Barb]

When I came to live in London, shortly after diagnosis, it was a very daunting prospect. But as I tried to locate the halls of residence I was to stay in I passed a pub with a Courage board outside and took it as a personal message! I did need a lot of courage in the days, months and years that followed but some 30 years later I'm still here and have received a lot of help and support along the way.

All the best with your speech Shiv, you're a great example to everyone on the forum.

Thanks all 🙂

AJ, my transition was totally different - in that I didn't have a transition, just one day I went to paed, and next appt I went to adults.

 

[Steff]

If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened..

Don’t deny the diagnosis; try to defy the verdict

Good luck

 

[MIsmail]

"The sweetest people in the world are diabetics"

(made that one up, but it's true!)


General quotes that inspire me:

> "Never look down upon someone unless you are helping them up"
(Jesse Jackson)

> "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
(Boxer- Muhammad Ali)

> "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
(Henry Ford-Founder of Ford)

 

[magic arrow]

I never experienced paediatric clinic, so I can't claim to know what the transition is like.

But a quote that spurred me to pull myself together, after a year of outright self neglect, and to understand that no-one was going to sort this one out for me was one from Robert Tattersall's Diabetes: The Biography

When people are asked to rank diseases in order of seriousness, diabetes is usually at the mild end of the spectrum. A journalist whose 16-year-old son had just been diagnosed wrote that he had always thought of it as 'something manageable and unprofound, a disease where not much happens'. By contrast, a patient of mine who had it for many years compared it to living with a tiger, since, as he said: 'If you look after it, and never turn your back on it, you can live with a tiger. If you neglect it, it will pounce on you and rip you to shreds.'

Pretty striking imagery, and quite a good insight into the level of vigilance required, I think.

 

[AnnW]

Those comments are so good everyone ! I find them helpful too... no good ones to put in I'm afraid, yet .
I love that last one magic 🙂 very thought provoking .