When I was diagnosed with Type 2 this Summer, I bumped into an acquaintance of mine in the supermarket who said her husband was also Type 2. She said "he's absolutely fine" and that he hadn't really amended his eating, the implication being that diabetes isn't as bad as I feared. She did admit that her husband sometimes forgot to take his medication and didn't go for his check ups. She also said there was no reason I couldn't eat cereal as her husband does. Thankfully I didn't listen to the cereal advice. They all appear to be packed with carbs and as I can't eat them without oodles of sugar to mask the taste, it seemed pointless to touch them.
Well, I bumped into this same friend a couple of weeks ago and she tells me her husband now has serious problems with his kidneys and that he now has to take insulin injections. I asked her if he had been eating sensibly and she said had, which is kind of different to what she'd told me before. However, she's a lovely lady and I know she's worried for him. But i'm making a giant leap here and assuming his post-diagnosis choices are likely to have led to his kidney problems rather than a natural progression of the disease?
Well, I bumped into this same friend a couple of weeks ago and she tells me her husband now has serious problems with his kidneys and that he now has to take insulin injections. I asked her if he had been eating sensibly and she said had, which is kind of different to what she'd told me before. However, she's a lovely lady and I know she's worried for him. But i'm making a giant leap here and assuming his post-diagnosis choices are likely to have led to his kidney problems rather than a natural progression of the disease?
