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Up at Newcastle dental Hosp today. Talk about gum disease & diabetes. (very common). More research going on at Newcastle !
 
It's not just the gum disease though is it Hobie? That leads to bone loss - which makes your teeth fall out and then the bone carries on shrinking so eventually there's not really enough to latch your denture onto. ie they won't stay in if you are ever going to move your mouth. So you would have to have a couple of implants - but personally I can't afford the £20k for two.
 
Tw I am getting off my behind & helping with a very good set of Drs & Dentists to improve things. I also am still in full time employment. Well did you say 🙄
 
Been up last week & going to opening of new Dept early this year. I dare you have a look 😎
 
Hobie - lots of us do helpful things to do with diabetes research - I used to do shedloads when it was Warwick Uni's turn to do shedloads of D research. (they were instrumental in bringing something called Lantus into use, incidentally) We never shouted it from the rooftops since we saw EVERYTHING and the rule was having passed the Professor in charge the project desins had to get past our eagle eyes before they were allowed to apply for funding. THEY never released questionnaires asking silly questions - things like 'Well if they wanted to know that, they should have asked whatever instead!' - no, cos we'd already told em the questions were wrong and what they ought to say. Next Wednesday my husband and I have been invited to Oxford Uni Medical School to take part in a research project we volunteered for. Last year I took part in a couple of lifestyle projects at Cov Uni. We try and do things locally, seeking to influence and inform the CCG.

I offer to go and speak at meetings or conferences - and have done so and would do so again - if they happen to need someone for whatever and I fit the remit. I actually do a LOT less now I'm retired than I did whilst working but I've by no means given up.

Researchers NEED diabetes sufferers to help inform them - the Professors are better informed than they used to be, but the less senior ones - and the students actually doing it for their Ph D Theses - can be MEGA uninformed, far far worse than Medical Students are and they're almost unbelievably naïve about most medical conditions cos they haven't got deep enough to know the medical equivalent of what every sailor knows - in the classroom on the blackboard the wind ALWAYS blows from left to right - however, out on the 'pond' in a dinghy it NEVER does! - so we are a VERY necessary part of the equation.

So I'm really pleased you are taking part in whatever you can, and I'll never knock that.
 
They are a Superb bunch of very good Drs ! Please please have a look at there Web site ! Support is what they need ! 😎
 
I have been invited to opening of new site in Newcastle this week. Will let you all now what its like. 😎
 
Met a few T1s who had Islet transplants here at Newcastle. Seemed very healthy when I was talking with them. Things are getting better. Have a look at Web Site. 😎
 
Went to see a member who has been part of this group for a long time. We normally set up his tent on the "Leas". South Shields at finish of Great North Run. Lots of Junior Docs involved. Will call on him again. 🙂
 
Off to "Cockney Land" on tues for day to help the really good Drs with there country-wide tests they are doing. 😎
 
Why are the really good docs in the East End of London, in a thread with the heading 'Newcastle Uni' ?

Are there no longer any really good docs anywhere else?
 
Lots of good things come out of Newcastle University...including me in my student days. Great place! 🙂
 
I was up there yesterday talking to very nice students. From allover the country. 🙂
 
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Raised a couple £ for them. The walk we did was from Newcastle ct station to Wylam with many Drs from the team inc Prof Shaw. My Mam & Dad (84) Wife, Daughter. Basically not my son who is the fittest 😎 More than 12 miles past Stevenson's cottage 😎
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Still involved with them 😉
 
When I was in intensive care last week a Nurse said to me "I know You". You gave us a talk about 3 months ago. I did not recognise her but it was a good feeling for both of us 🙂
 
HOBIE said:
When I was in intensive care last week a Nurse said to me "I know You". You gave us a talk about 3 months ago. I did not recognise her but it was a good feeling for both of us 🙂
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Recognition for your efforts Hobie, well done.
 
Have seen Prof Shaw today. But will see him in a few weeks. Something to talk about ?
 
HOBIE said:
Off to "Cockney Land" on tues for day to help the really good Drs with there country-wide tests they are doing. 😎
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That is with the Newcastle Dental Hosp. Dentists can tell if you are heading in the wrong direction (T2)
 
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