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Theresa May diabetes type 1 photo
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Northerner
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Courageous Home Secretary Theresa May has vowed to carry on her political career after revealing that doctors have told her she must inject herself with insulin at least twice a day for the rest of her life.
Mrs May, strongly tipped to succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader, is suffering from Type 1 diabetes ? which carries a risk of heart attacks and strokes ? and now carries a needle with her at all times.
Disclosing the chronic condition in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mrs May, 56, said: ?It was a real shock and, yes, it took me a while to come to terms with it.?
But she is determined to soldier on in her gruelling routine as Home Secretary, working up to 18 hours a day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...jections--vows-continue-political-career.html
You beat me to it Nicky! 🙂 'carries a needle with her at all times' 🙄
Someone should tell her that MDI is a better regime...
Mrs May, strongly tipped to succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader, is suffering from Type 1 diabetes ? which carries a risk of heart attacks and strokes ? and now carries a needle with her at all times.
Disclosing the chronic condition in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mrs May, 56, said: ?It was a real shock and, yes, it took me a while to come to terms with it.?
But she is determined to soldier on in her gruelling routine as Home Secretary, working up to 18 hours a day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...jections--vows-continue-political-career.html
You beat me to it Nicky! 🙂 'carries a needle with her at all times' 🙄
Someone should tell her that MDI is a better regime...
Nicky1970
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Northerner
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Casper
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Just read the Mail's article - phew! In my opinion this is the type of information we can do without - It comes across as a terrible, aggressive, and 'chronic condition' that, fortunately, can be controlled by carrying a needle at all times. 🙄
We all know that there is far more to it than that, and that many many people continue their working lives successfully without special treatment or dispensaton.
We all know that there is far more to it than that, and that many many people continue their working lives successfully without special treatment or dispensaton.
Northerner
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Yes, it's a shame that it was the Mail and not the Guardian/Observer or Independent that got the scoop
There might have been a less sensationalised account.
Pumper_Sue
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Bet it won't be long before she has a pump 🙄
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DeusXM
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I wouldn't disagree with that assessment of T1. I know there's more to it than that, but as a shorthand I've always taken the view that uncontrolled T1 is extremely and rapidly fatal but it can be relatively easily kept in check through medication to the point that it doesn't cause you any issue.
To be honest I'm just a bit disappointed with the vague implication that T1 could make her less able to do her job. Frankly I can't stand the woman on a political level but I would be extremely pleased if she ended up leading the Tories as it'd prove how T1 is not a limitation.
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