Gosh, I had no idea thyroid problems were connected to diabetes, does that affect your memory and thinking processes?
My memory is atrocious, my mum's is seriously bad, she attended a memory clinic and still has many memory related problems, and it seems like her personality is different. Some years ago she had an op on her pituitary gland to remove a cyst, doing this cut some of the blood vessels in the brain, and she's been on thyroid medication ever since. Docs don't think she's getting any worse, and although I don't think her memory is as good as they think it is, and she does weird things sometimes that I can't understand (no logic to it) she hasn't got much worse since, it's just like occasionally another bolt or screw comes loose and you don't know what weird thing she'll do next time.
Now if all that's related to the op she had, then that's one thing, but if it's something else, something that could be inherited, then the future looks really bleak for me and my kids, and if that could be worsened by diabetes... well - a future nightmare looms for me.
I have athritis, so bits of me seize up now and then, and the one thing that keeps me going is my brain, by that I mean that if my brain began to disintegrate too... well, what of me would be left? It's a horrifying vision.
When my husband and I sit watching a recorded "Pointless", and even on pause, I can't come up with things I know I know, and he can... it's very depressing.