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- Gender:
- Female
- Birthday:
- Mar 12, 1979 (Age: 42)
- Location:
- The Netherlands
- Occupation:
- Journalist, non-practicing
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About
- Gender:
- Female
- Birthday:
- Mar 12, 1979 (Age: 42)
- Location:
- The Netherlands
- Occupation:
- Journalist, non-practicing
- Type of diabetes:
- Type 2 (in remission!)
- Treatment type:
- Diet only
- Exercise:
- Walking on the weekends.
- Likes:
- Books, christmas, photography, music, writing, learning, cats, cats, cats. (Lions, tigers and.... Housecats. Oh my!). Travel used to be high on my list, but our cat has been on insulin for years, so we always have to be home in time for his shots. I've not traveled far since the T2 diagnosis.... But one day I'll see Venice again, and London. Who knows, maybe even set foot in Canada again... I'll do fine in the UK and other English speaking countries, but ah, how do you order keto in Italy? ;)
- Dislikes:
- I dislike a whole lot.
I'm Jo, born in '79, and stuck with a myriad of issues, both physical and mental. So though I studied to be a journalist, I only published a few articles and photo's, in the Netherlands and abroad. (You can guess how irate I get when journalists do a shoddy job of their research... Especially about T2!) No job, so guess I'm a housewife. A lousy one, but still. I'm a wife, and I'm usually at the house! So yeah. Thankfully my husband took me on, issues and all, and we've been happily married since 2008. We have one cat, our little black pirate, Night. He's diabetic too, since pancreatitis killed off his insulin-production. It's cost him an eye so far, but he's quite happy on his Lantus. And without his meter it would've been even longer before I'd have found out my own diagnosis. (Yeah... I measured my sky-high bloodsugars while on my own, at home. Talk about the floor opening up beneith you. Now there was a surprise!). So, what else... I just try to make the most of life, within the limits my body and mind put on me. And they're pretty constricting limits. But if I don't make it work, no-one else'll do it for me, and life's got to be worth living, right? So I'm trying. Spend a lot of time photographing animals in zoo's and their natural habitats, going to castles and palaces for more photo ops, and I can't resist a good comic con or fantasy fair.Interact
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Last HbA1c was 36, as of June 2020. Diet-only (LCHF, Keto, IF, Carnivore), no meds. T2 Diaversary 26th of July (2016), when I was 37 years old.
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