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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rochari" data-source="post: 2187852" data-attributes="member: 68255">Thanks Ushthetaff. I learnt the lesson about sorbitol right at the very beginning when a kindly aunt gave me diabetic custard creams. Dear god!Can you believe I have the original diet sheet handed to my dad all those years ago? In it it does indeed mention potatoes must be no larger than a hen's egg. I'd completely forgotten about that. One of the exchanges I am looking at right now was a favourite i.e. the small block of ice-cream from Walls which I think cost sixpence. The sheet says ONLY the ice-cream and not the wafers.Oddly though, the thing I remember most about those days was the lead up to being diagnosed. It was a horrible time and for around 6 weeks, at school, I spent every single break with my mouth under the cold water tap, gulping it down. As my mother and grandmother were both type 1's I'd already been tested, the GP said it was OK.and I must have a virus. On week seven I went unconscious and was admitted to the children's hospital where type 1 was diagnosed. I remember all of that time vividly and hope no kid ever has to go through that these days.Bill</blockquote>

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