Hi Jamrox - Great result.
I remember you doing your goal setting exercise a while back, and thinking how organised you are.
I have been removed from the diabetes register at my surgery. I didn't ask for it, but agreed to it, when it was suggested. To be honest, I agreed to it to stop all those outrageous conversations where the words, ".... that'll be due to your diabetes....", feature. You know the ones I mean - everything from a cold to the plague becoming attributable.
I still have an annual HbA1c, have my retinopathy scan, and have access to my doc and so on. The only thing I don't routinely have is a formal review, but I do that with myself from time to time, and nor do I have my feet checked. But I only once had had my feet checked during the time I was on the register, and I paid for that, just after diagnosis (I as going abroad for a few moths and wanted it done.)
I haven't found coming off the register has made me complacent, in fact, I might say it has done the reverse. Whilst the vast majority of people are either very pleased for me, or disinterested (in the scheme of things), some are just waiting for me to trip up and for it all to go terribly wrong. I'm sure we all have someone like that in our lives?
The last thing I'll be doing is proving them right, without a good fight!
Again congratulations on doing so well. Whilst I always say that diabetes isn't a solo sport (in that it inevitably impacts those close to us as well as ourselves), only we can do the work to turn in the results.