deaf-fishie
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Hi I'm Vicky, I'm 27 and I've been a type 1 diabetic for about 16 years.
So a little bit of background (this could get quiet long, we'll see how it goes, stop me if you fall asleep! 😛 )
I was diagnosed at 11 years old but sadly I didn't get the right treatment, my father was diabetic and very old school, despite numpours doctors and specialists telling him otherwise he decided I did not need insulin and could control my diabetes by diet alone.
I won't go into what that was like, I'm sure you can imagine.
At 18 I made my own choice and started on an insulin regime and felt alot better bu8t started to put on weight, byt the time I went to university I was a size 20 and unhappy, my dad blamed the insulin, so I stopped taking it....
Fast forward two years in which I was very ill and often had to miss lectures because I just couldn't get out of bed. a week after my 21st birthday I was in alot of pain with my kidney's, went to the doctor and was sent away with pain killers. The next day my partner came home and couldn't wake me, he called an ambulance.
I can't begin to imagine how difficult that was for my family, being told that I probably would never wake up or if I did they didn't know if I'd be brain damaged because of the oxygen deprivation...
2 months later I woke up in ICU, I couldn;t speak, I's lost alot of my vision and my hearing, my legs had wasted so I couldn't walk and could only sit for short periods...but I was alive...
After 6 long months in hospital I was allowed home. It took a long time to begin to lead a npormal life, but a year later I moved into a sheltered community, I refuded to move back in with my partner until I could look after myslef, he was my boyfriend not my carer.
It's almost 6 years since the day I left hospital, I'm profoundly deaf (hearing aids in both ears), I have mobility problems thanks to retinopathy in my legs and have only got sight in one eye (Macular odema) but surprisingly am happier than I've ver been!
I've been living with my partner (who stuck with me through it all!) and my blood sugars are under control. I'm still a size 18 but I'm working on it!
I never want to go back to where I was and some days that still seems possible so I'm joining this forum to help keep me on track and hopefully make a few friends too! 🙂
I'm done now, you can stop snoring! 🙂
So a little bit of background (this could get quiet long, we'll see how it goes, stop me if you fall asleep! 😛 )
I was diagnosed at 11 years old but sadly I didn't get the right treatment, my father was diabetic and very old school, despite numpours doctors and specialists telling him otherwise he decided I did not need insulin and could control my diabetes by diet alone.
I won't go into what that was like, I'm sure you can imagine.
At 18 I made my own choice and started on an insulin regime and felt alot better bu8t started to put on weight, byt the time I went to university I was a size 20 and unhappy, my dad blamed the insulin, so I stopped taking it....
Fast forward two years in which I was very ill and often had to miss lectures because I just couldn't get out of bed. a week after my 21st birthday I was in alot of pain with my kidney's, went to the doctor and was sent away with pain killers. The next day my partner came home and couldn't wake me, he called an ambulance.
I can't begin to imagine how difficult that was for my family, being told that I probably would never wake up or if I did they didn't know if I'd be brain damaged because of the oxygen deprivation...
2 months later I woke up in ICU, I couldn;t speak, I's lost alot of my vision and my hearing, my legs had wasted so I couldn't walk and could only sit for short periods...but I was alive...
After 6 long months in hospital I was allowed home. It took a long time to begin to lead a npormal life, but a year later I moved into a sheltered community, I refuded to move back in with my partner until I could look after myslef, he was my boyfriend not my carer.
It's almost 6 years since the day I left hospital, I'm profoundly deaf (hearing aids in both ears), I have mobility problems thanks to retinopathy in my legs and have only got sight in one eye (Macular odema) but surprisingly am happier than I've ver been!
I've been living with my partner (who stuck with me through it all!) and my blood sugars are under control. I'm still a size 18 but I'm working on it!
I never want to go back to where I was and some days that still seems possible so I'm joining this forum to help keep me on track and hopefully make a few friends too! 🙂
I'm done now, you can stop snoring! 🙂
