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<blockquote data-quote="Guzzler" data-source="post: 1592692" data-attributes="member: 408573"><p>Thanks everyone.</p><p></p><p>It is a strange thing but at the one month stage from dx I had lowered my A1c from 98 to 73. I was still under no illusion that was still very high but I looked at the drop and I was chuffed. I was delighted with the response I got from forum members when I posted about it and that fall in numbers plus the support I got here spurred me on. However, of all the comments that I got there was/is one that sticks out in my memory. Not a negative comment, an honest one but it had the effect of deflating my 'high'. The commentater just wrote one simple line, 'Yes, but it is still too high'. He/she gave no attention to what I had done but focused on the mountain I was still to climb. No praise but no criticism just plain truth but at the time it made me feel that my efforts weren't good enough ergo I had failed. Out of all of the comments that was the one I remember clearly.</p><p>I suppose what came next shows my nature in that three months later my A1c came out at 43 and one of the first things I thought was directed at that commenter and it was 'Up Yours, I know you can't argue with that!'</p><p>But that first comment will stay with me, I hadn't done enough and there were no excuses is what I took from it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guzzler, post: 1592692, member: 408573"] Thanks everyone. It is a strange thing but at the one month stage from dx I had lowered my A1c from 98 to 73. I was still under no illusion that was still very high but I looked at the drop and I was chuffed. I was delighted with the response I got from forum members when I posted about it and that fall in numbers plus the support I got here spurred me on. However, of all the comments that I got there was/is one that sticks out in my memory. Not a negative comment, an honest one but it had the effect of deflating my 'high'. The commentater just wrote one simple line, 'Yes, but it is still too high'. He/she gave no attention to what I had done but focused on the mountain I was still to climb. No praise but no criticism just plain truth but at the time it made me feel that my efforts weren't good enough ergo I had failed. Out of all of the comments that was the one I remember clearly. I suppose what came next shows my nature in that three months later my A1c came out at 43 and one of the first things I thought was directed at that commenter and it was 'Up Yours, I know you can't argue with that!' But that first comment will stay with me, I hadn't done enough and there were no excuses is what I took from it. [/QUOTE]
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