I actually did speak to my doctor i told her i am scared of this disease cos my dad had it he also had four heart attacks a triple bypass Parkinsons' dementia ( which i believe were caused by statins) and he died a slow death in a care home
I can relate to that. It's so hard to watch the decline of a person you love, especially if that person is a parent whose genetic make up you
may have inherited. How old was your dad when he passed away, and did it happen recently? How was he treated for T2, meds?
As I see it you're attacking your diabetes head on with your diet, and that's the best you can do. You turned your fears into useful fighting mode and went on LCHF, because what's the alternative? End up like your dad? I fully get you. There's no guarantee that we won't get dementia, or cardiac disease, but all we can do is try our best and believe in what we do.
I see that you're roughly my age, and I think it's only natural at our age that the aging process and passing away of our parents make us sit up and think, and worry about where we ourselves will be in 20 years time. Especially if this was a lengthy and emotionally draining process, where you spent so much time with him. Don't underestimate the stress this caused you, and yes it will stay with you for a while, and may well have aggravated other mental issues like PTSD. Did you have any counselling to help you through your grief? At least give yourself several pats on your back for being there for him. Doesn't it help you to know that you didn't let him down?
There's nothing we can do to make us younger, apart from taking care of ourselves to the best of our abilities, and try to stay positive about it - oh, and stop comparing ourselves to other people including our husbands (nah, I only have the one
). Mine can eat anything, is 65 and have never had any of the probs I have at 58. That's just how it is. I've stopped reading success stories for the same reason. I don't shed kgs like so many others, and my BG-levels are slowly on their way up, in spite of my keto'ing, but my alternative is to throw the towel in the ring, increase my meds and start a fast spiral downwards. Success stories make me feel like a failure, so I compete with myself nowadays.
My background for relating to what you've been through? My mum passed away from vascular dementia 3 years ago. Watching her decline over +10 years was a, well, I can't quite find the words to descibe that experience, but it was no fun.
While having no fun with that, I watched my previously so brilliantly intelligent dad turn into a heavy alcoholic because that was how he coped with my mum's illness. They both ended up at the same ****** nursing home. My dad passed away last July. He died from a probably alcohol related cancer that wasn't diagnosed till a week or two before he passed.
I spent 10+ years travelling to be with them at least once a month. One year I was one flight away from getting a free flight with Norwegian to Thailand as a bonus.
We don't know the future. Who knows, I may end up with vascular dementia too, and without loving children to look after me, but I really try hard not to think too much about it. Sometimes I wonder if my mum's vascular dementia could've been caused by her perpetual low fat diet, and yes, she was on statins too.