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- Type of diabetes
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Came home this evening, noticed an opened letter on the fridge with my name on it.
Wife had opened it thinking it was a bank statement or bill.
I'm Irish based so this is how we receive them.
The GP, who get a more detailed report, never calls beforehand, just goes in your file.
Last years scan picked background retinopathy, 2 vessels in one eye were identified as problematic.
It was the surgery nurse who actually told me the specifics although she said it was very mild & not to worry.
Of course I worried & probably lost a few nights sleep.
Anyway, as you know these letters don't open with confetti or a big x like family fortunes, you have to start reading through their carefully worded language.
I believe I've been given the all clear, amazing what a year of good control can bring.
Genuine punch the air moment.
I quizzed the wife why she never rang with my results, we had been talking earlier in the day.
"Cause you never were diabetic!!!" I get this a lot when I bring it up.
She herself had GD on our last child so she knows what diabetic figures look like.
It took me a month post diagnosis to get a meter & she, nor I, have ever seen diabetic numbers so I don't get any sympathy there.
Think I might enjoy a glass of dry red tonight, 2021 is getting better already.
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Wife had opened it thinking it was a bank statement or bill.
I'm Irish based so this is how we receive them.
The GP, who get a more detailed report, never calls beforehand, just goes in your file.
Last years scan picked background retinopathy, 2 vessels in one eye were identified as problematic.
It was the surgery nurse who actually told me the specifics although she said it was very mild & not to worry.
Of course I worried & probably lost a few nights sleep.
Anyway, as you know these letters don't open with confetti or a big x like family fortunes, you have to start reading through their carefully worded language.
I believe I've been given the all clear, amazing what a year of good control can bring.
Genuine punch the air moment.
I quizzed the wife why she never rang with my results, we had been talking earlier in the day.
"Cause you never were diabetic!!!" I get this a lot when I bring it up.
She herself had GD on our last child so she knows what diabetic figures look like.
It took me a month post diagnosis to get a meter & she, nor I, have ever seen diabetic numbers so I don't get any sympathy there.
Think I might enjoy a glass of dry red tonight, 2021 is getting better already.
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