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    why i'm not allowed a pump

    Different PCTs seem to have different policies about this. I was given a Medtronic pump when I was 68, but our PCT wouldn't fund the Medtronic continuous glucose monitor that works with it and prevents me having hypos. If I had lived in Bournemouth, apparently the NHS would have funded it. As...
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    how do you accept it?

    I'm a diabetic 'oldie' diagnosed with Type 1 in 1965. I empathise with the feelings of people struggling to accept it, and sometimes I get very p****d off with it but then I remind myself that having it is better than the alternative! 100 years ago I would have had to accept dying very young...