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I'd say both my sis and I could have had that gene - I got T1 and she T2 after she'd had breast cancer. Neither mom nor dad had diabetes and as far as we know none of their parents or any other relatives did either. However dad's mother dies when he was about 13 around 1927, apparently of heart trouble - but who knows way back then? Just cos she died of heart failure it depends what caused it to fail, doesn't it?

I have no kids, my sis had 2. Both middle aged by now and live in Australia so we've more or less lost touch over the years anyway. Neither has any children.

The faulty gene, if I have it, started somewhere - maybe only with me - but nobody on earth will ever know!
 
I would love to know if there is a genetic influence as I'm the only one with any form of diabetes in my family; nobody on either side has any history of diabetes whatsoever (that I can find). My son doesn't have it either. Must be a black sheep 🙂
 
I wasn’t ‘putting the boot in’ to teachers at all, neither was I being critical of this teacher or the profession. When I posed the question, I was referring to diabetes.

One of the big battles everyone with diabetes faces is the mis-information that is put into the public domain. I would go as far as to say that this is particularly true about type 1. For example, a child will be diagnosed and their peers find out. They go home and ask Mum and Dad what diabetes is. Mum and Dad, remembering what they’ve heard and seen in the media, tell their child that people who have a bad diet and don’t exercise get it, which is a million miles from the truth where type 1 is concerned.

No-one expects the teachers to be experts on every medical condition, but if mistakes like this are made, there is no harm in pointing them out. I didn’t ask for similar experiences because I want to criticise the profession, but merely to get a sense of what is being taught in schools. I don’t know about anyone else, but I believe that every opportunity to highlight the realities should be taken.
 
I was giving a talk at a local College. I was lecturing the lecturers. 😱. I nice bunch who listened, They told me of a student who came in the class with a full cooked chicken ! She was a T1 & told the teacher she had to have it for her diabetes. Can you imagine what the classroom was like ? Its a good job we are all different :D
 
My mum was T1, but we are the only ones in our family. So is it a faulty gene I’ve inherited from mum, or is it coincidence?
 
The JDRF free information pack for schools is a pretty useful resource. I e-mailed our daughter with a link to the site as I knew she'd had to deal with an emergency with a T1 pupil.

Thanks Dad, I’ve got a pupil in S2 who has type 1 and I meet with his nurse every term as he dodges taking his insulin and keeps getting sick! One day he couldn’t breathe right and ended up being hospitalised.
 
It sounds like your daughter is really looking after this lad, Dave W. Send her to the top of the class!
 
Dave W said:
The JDRF free information pack for schools is a pretty useful resource. I e-mailed our daughter with a link to the site as I knew she'd had to deal with an emergency with a T1 pupil.

Thanks Dad, I’ve got a pupil in S2 who has type 1 and I meet with his nurse every term as he dodges taking his insulin and keeps getting sick! One day he couldn’t breathe right and ended up being hospitalised.
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Please tell your daughter SHE gets a gold star from us. Well done 😉
 
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