I appreciate you looking out for me there but it's a good idea for me to get on track with my body now and I find it easy. Support like this really means the world to me and it's mainly dealing with the stress of getting my family to understand that I am not killing myself doing this that means I don't feel like it sometimes!
I totally agree about getting this thing in a good place now, rather than later, so no arguments there. One comment I would make about family is that that was, in some ways, my biggest challenge.
I was diagnosed asymptomatically, having had some routine bloods done, after a Well Woman thing. Bingo! It was a bolt from the blue. Having immediately bought myself a meter (my father had been a steroid induced T2, so I knew the importance of testing), I could see my numbers backed up that pesky, pesky lab result, but my OH kept saking if there could h ave been some sort of mistake - me being so hale and hearty and all that.
My big breakthrough with him was sharing my blood test results - both the lab one (at the simplest level; sort of 48 = diabates. I scored 73, so pretty emphatic), and then my finger prick testing. I showed him the ranges from this website (
https://www.google.com/url?q=https:...:b5hp6lp7xao&usg=AOvVaw0a4IgHsD6EOaBinmZXKx6Q) , then showed him a little of my my historic readings, with the higher numbers, then of course, they came down into the better ranges.
Honestly, once he had that data, it was like a complete "Eureka!" moment. He got it, and bought into the whole thing from then. Bearing in mind, he is the major (and much better) cook in our house, that made a massive difference to the quality of both our lives. The low level tension went down, and we both relaxed into way of living that was just a bit different to before.
Of course, for a while, I'd test and he'd ask what the number was, but I took that as interest and concern, not interference.
Maybe you could work on data sharing with your Mum, or whoever is the most vocal or demonstrative of your family?
Sorry to deflect the thread,
@Chook . I'll get myself onto that naughty step, although maybe not an hour for each year of my life. I'd be joining you guys on the fast!