Gillie Ruth
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Both my adult sons have severe asthma...I'm the type 2 diabetic......they MUST test their breathing capacity 3-4times a day. They takes regular preventers, and many other meds including lots of cortisone. Where ever they go, they have relievers, cortisone, a volumatic, a mobile phone, and in the car a nebuliser that runs off the battery. We have antibiotics on hand for the slightest outbreak of any bug because of secondary infections.
One son was in an induced coma for 7 days before his asthma stricture broke,mthe other, an anaphylactic coma due to allergy to a viral infection.
This has been going on since that we're babies.
Lung damage is their future unless they follow their regimen to the letter, and no they do not smoke. What idiot would?
This is relevant in that there are many severe conditions out there that require total life changing behaviors, oh, and they have inherited diabetes to look forward to as well.
I have chronic asthma, and the boys asthm scares me witless, they couldd be gone in an instant, no amount of intervention can necessarily guarantee their lives!
I am much easier in my own mind dealing with my diabetes than their asthma, I may get complications, but I'm not going to keel over tomorrow if I am careful and treasure the life I have. There I've said it, I'd rather be like this than go back to my childhood days of dreadful, untreatable asthma.
Be grateful for every advance in treatment and accept that no one has a perfect life. My stress levels are far higher about them amd our finances than my diabetes!
And I'm not fat, lazy or ever eaten a poor diet, in my family, it is who doesn't have diabetes rather than who does, it's the norm, do what we will.
One son was in an induced coma for 7 days before his asthma stricture broke,mthe other, an anaphylactic coma due to allergy to a viral infection.
This has been going on since that we're babies.
Lung damage is their future unless they follow their regimen to the letter, and no they do not smoke. What idiot would?
This is relevant in that there are many severe conditions out there that require total life changing behaviors, oh, and they have inherited diabetes to look forward to as well.
I have chronic asthma, and the boys asthm scares me witless, they couldd be gone in an instant, no amount of intervention can necessarily guarantee their lives!
I am much easier in my own mind dealing with my diabetes than their asthma, I may get complications, but I'm not going to keel over tomorrow if I am careful and treasure the life I have. There I've said it, I'd rather be like this than go back to my childhood days of dreadful, untreatable asthma.
Be grateful for every advance in treatment and accept that no one has a perfect life. My stress levels are far higher about them amd our finances than my diabetes!
And I'm not fat, lazy or ever eaten a poor diet, in my family, it is who doesn't have diabetes rather than who does, it's the norm, do what we will.