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- 1,108
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- baked beans
Mine started 42 year ago, I was brought up by 1 parent from the age of 6
My dad used to give me lucozade or sugar and water for breakfast and as a result I ended up in hospital at the age of 6 with a swollen liver from the sugar intake, This happened again at the age of 9, and both times was not a good memory to have.
At the age of around 11 I started having a dream that I would be dead by the time I was 25, so like all kids that age I rebelled badly. Drink, drugs, gas,glue anything I could get my hands on and not forgetting sweets that I had never had as I always ate fruit.
This all changed when I turned 28 and suffered a really bad hypo at work which as a result I ended up on BP tablets, the same year I had another massive episode and was told that I had suffered a stroke by the paramedic, but once in hospital I was told half my brain was starved of carbohydrates and gave the effect of the stoke. ( To this day I still say it was a stoke)
Anyway from that day I started looking after myself but had started drinking quite heavy as I started cooking in a pub, then in 2002 I broke up with my partner which half killed me. Not because we split but because I had to leave my 2 kids who where 3 and 1 at the time.
Then the bad stuff happened, I started drinking alot heavier (20 cans plus beers at work a night) in 2004 I started suffering pains in my right hip and had 3 x-rays and 5 physio sessions, none of these helped and ended up on tramadol and diclofenic. All the x-rays showed as clear but was then told I needed a scan on the hips.
The scan showed that the right ball joint on my hip was in the middle of collapsing and the left hip was starting to collapse (at the time I was like FML)
In January 2005 I had a fibular bone graft to the left hip to stop it collpsing like the right one had done, which is the most painful thing I have ever encountered, and after getting an infection and loosing a large portion of my hip muscle I had the right hip replaced in the August of the same year.
NOW the consultant says it was done to exessive drinking but after a night in A+E suffering from low blood sodium another consultant says it had nothing to do with drinkg alcohol, so I asked could it have been the pigs insulin I had been injecting into my legs from such an early age, his reply was probably but you will never be able to claim against the makers .....
there will be more to come on my life
My dad used to give me lucozade or sugar and water for breakfast and as a result I ended up in hospital at the age of 6 with a swollen liver from the sugar intake, This happened again at the age of 9, and both times was not a good memory to have.
At the age of around 11 I started having a dream that I would be dead by the time I was 25, so like all kids that age I rebelled badly. Drink, drugs, gas,glue anything I could get my hands on and not forgetting sweets that I had never had as I always ate fruit.
This all changed when I turned 28 and suffered a really bad hypo at work which as a result I ended up on BP tablets, the same year I had another massive episode and was told that I had suffered a stroke by the paramedic, but once in hospital I was told half my brain was starved of carbohydrates and gave the effect of the stoke. ( To this day I still say it was a stoke)
Anyway from that day I started looking after myself but had started drinking quite heavy as I started cooking in a pub, then in 2002 I broke up with my partner which half killed me. Not because we split but because I had to leave my 2 kids who where 3 and 1 at the time.
Then the bad stuff happened, I started drinking alot heavier (20 cans plus beers at work a night) in 2004 I started suffering pains in my right hip and had 3 x-rays and 5 physio sessions, none of these helped and ended up on tramadol and diclofenic. All the x-rays showed as clear but was then told I needed a scan on the hips.
The scan showed that the right ball joint on my hip was in the middle of collapsing and the left hip was starting to collapse (at the time I was like FML)
In January 2005 I had a fibular bone graft to the left hip to stop it collpsing like the right one had done, which is the most painful thing I have ever encountered, and after getting an infection and loosing a large portion of my hip muscle I had the right hip replaced in the August of the same year.
NOW the consultant says it was done to exessive drinking but after a night in A+E suffering from low blood sodium another consultant says it had nothing to do with drinkg alcohol, so I asked could it have been the pigs insulin I had been injecting into my legs from such an early age, his reply was probably but you will never be able to claim against the makers .....
there will be more to come on my life
