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Chatterbox

Chatterbox

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Hi all. Newly diagnosed type 2. Genetic so not unexpected but very angry with myself as I was warned two years ago and put a lot of weight on afterwards.

Confused as what is required as not seeing advisory nurse till tomorrow but what ever I refuse to lose my sense of humour!

Please join me in a virtual cup of tea or coffee. Entrance fee...a sense of humour. 🙂
 
Hello CB, welcome to the forum 🙂
Mines white no sugar please 🙂
 
Tea, milk and no sugar for me please - plenty of sense of humour on the side ! I was diagnosed with type 2 in July, so still learning plenty.

Hope your visit to the nurse tomorrow goes well.
 
Hi chatterbox my nickname on here lol, a warm welcome to the forum and I hope tomorrows appointment goes well to.

Ps I don't do hot drinks so a glass of Perrier and slice of lemon will suffice Ta 🙂
 
Welcome to the forums Chatterbox 🙂

Can you add a drop of whisky into mine - the north wind is biting today.
 
White, so sugar for me please! Welcome aboard! Katie 🙂
 
Welcome Chatterbox. Reminds me, there's a bottle of beer waiting to be drunk...

By the way, you might particularly like the Weight Loss Group for practical help, encouragement, laughs etc.
 
Come and get em!

Right...here are your drinks. That tot of whiskey sounds good but I'd better stick to my low GI eating plan. I put myself and my husband on it (he doesn't know) since being diagnosed.

Rich Tea anyone...you could dunk it in your Perrier if your desperate LMC :D
 
When i was an apprentice i worked with a bloke who was in his 60s. His idea of heaven was a tea urn strapped to his back. As a 16 year old i used to come in from work a bit sick of tea 😱 Now i am older i am turning out like him. Milk & half a sugar at work, Milk & sweetner when not. I do a fairly manual job up & down ladders etc. Welcome 🙂🙂
 
I wouldn't mind the whiskey strapped to me back...with a straw to reach it 😉
 
Chatterbox said:
Right...here are your drinks. That tot of whiskey sounds good but I'd better stick to my low GI eating plan. I put myself and my husband on it (he doesn't know) since being diagnosed.

Rich Tea anyone...you could dunk it in your Perrier if your desperate LMC :D
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I'll dunk it anywhere as long as you change the rich tea to a choccie digestive :D
 
Thanks, Hobi. I didn't think I'd be lead astray on here! 🙄
 
As you say in your signature, it's the most adaptive to change who survive! Darwin was right! 🙂

All part of sense of humour / finding fun in life with or without diabetes 🙂
 
Waste of my blooming time!

Well...that was a waste of blooming time! I went for my appointment with the diabeties nurse today and I seemed to know more than her!!! It wasn't the diabeties nurse at all but as she said, she "knew a bit about it and "it was a shame Sarah wasn't there as she's been on a course and knows all about it". :confused: I could make an appointment with her if I wished...I said I thought I had actually.

She gave me details of a two day information course but didn't do a foot check as expected. When I said how concerned I'd been all week she said "Oh don't worry...just eat a healthy diet"

I'm wondering whether to expect this kind of time wasting or should I write to the Pracice Manager?

I could also add that after being given the diagnosis by the GP I had to go to the desk to make an appointment with this nurse and my business was broadcast loudly whilst a friend was in the surgery waiting room 😡

Is it me or is this a low sugar rant?
 
Chatterbox said:
I'm wondering whether to expect this kind of time wasting or should I write to the Pracice Manager?

Standard form for many newly dxed Type 2 Diabetics unfortunately...."You've got an incurable condition of which the causes are not known so theres's no treatment ...But .... we're not interested".
We'll fob you off with the Practice Nurse, who knows next to nothing about Type 2 diabetes but who can talk excellently about her Aunty who had it and her holidays.

Ask for a meter and test strips if you haven't already got one and check out the stickies for T2 newbies ....at the top of this Newbies thread ...
-- Jennifer's Smart Advice
-- Maggie Davey's Open Letter to a Newly Diagnosed T2
-- Test, Review, Adjust by Alan S

You might also consider the Glycemic Load Diet rather than just GI.
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Thanks McDonagh. I needed someone else to tell me I'm not just being a grump. I'm off to the course tomorrow...wish me luck 🙄
 
Welcome Chatterbox, keep your glass `half full`and you`ll soon get your head round this condition! My advice - read Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker, then read it again! This book is recommended above. As already advised, get a meter and test - the nurse will tell you it is a waste of time - but it gives you so much information on how a particular food affects YOU! Again welcome to school!!
 
Thanks all. I went to the first part of the localy run DESMOND type course last week and found it really helpful.
 
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