Fairygodmother
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Bigotry, reliance on unsupported 'facts', unkindness, unfairness.
I'd have been concerned if either of my children had T1 ExtremelyWOrried, but I'd have also been encouraged by a great person who I met when I was pregnant with the older one. She traced T1 back through every generation in her family and was also having her first baby. She'd had it since she was a child. Her family saw it as a part of them, like some see eye colour, buck teeth, musical skills, or ability to draw.
She and her husband had spent time abroad, camped in Yosemite, drove motorcross, grew veg . . . Ordinary lives. Maybe.
I realised then that it would be sad if I passed on T1, but it would be worse to think that my children's lives would be blighted by it.
Yes, there are things that trip us up. I don't deny that. I was cross that a ferry company wouldn't give me a summer job when I was a student in case I were seasick and became devastatingly hypo (they were, in retrospect, wise). I just had to make do with less. I survived. I also regret the times a hypo or hyper has taken hours out of the day, but I don't regret having children. Ever.
I do, however, worry about the kind of world my grandsons will see when they've grown up, but maybe that's where my own black dog sits growling.
She and her husband had spent time abroad, camped in Yosemite, drove motorcross, grew veg . . . Ordinary lives. Maybe.
I realised then that it would be sad if I passed on T1, but it would be worse to think that my children's lives would be blighted by it.
Yes, there are things that trip us up. I don't deny that. I was cross that a ferry company wouldn't give me a summer job when I was a student in case I were seasick and became devastatingly hypo (they were, in retrospect, wise). I just had to make do with less. I survived. I also regret the times a hypo or hyper has taken hours out of the day, but I don't regret having children. Ever.
I do, however, worry about the kind of world my grandsons will see when they've grown up, but maybe that's where my own black dog sits growling.