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I am the third T2 diabetic in a direct line and it's probable my Great Grandmother was one more.
I stayed this weekend with my mother, who is aged 90(91 next month) she insists that having 2 slices of toast for brakfast anda couple of sandwiches for her evening meal is fine and won't bother testing her blood as the doctor does it often enough. She wouldn't try my Fergus bread, as she no longer tries new things.
I think I've persuaded her to take the Metformin she was sent by the doctor, because I told her it would probably solve her chronic consttipation.
I can understand that a 90+ year old probably hasn't got time to develop many complications.
BUT my mother was the definition of the "fount of all knowledge and determined wooden headedness" when I was young. she's only got worse.
If doctors see many like her, I don't wonder they don't even consider some of the things we discuss on this forum.
Needless to say, I cannot possibly know more about diabetic diet than my mother's doctor, or her T2 next door neightbour,
I stayed this weekend with my mother, who is aged 90(91 next month) she insists that having 2 slices of toast for brakfast anda couple of sandwiches for her evening meal is fine and won't bother testing her blood as the doctor does it often enough. She wouldn't try my Fergus bread, as she no longer tries new things.
I think I've persuaded her to take the Metformin she was sent by the doctor, because I told her it would probably solve her chronic consttipation.
I can understand that a 90+ year old probably hasn't got time to develop many complications.
BUT my mother was the definition of the "fount of all knowledge and determined wooden headedness" when I was young. she's only got worse.
If doctors see many like her, I don't wonder they don't even consider some of the things we discuss on this forum.
Needless to say, I cannot possibly know more about diabetic diet than my mother's doctor, or her T2 next door neightbour,