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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1658417" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>I don't know who you've both been talking to about diabetic life expectancies??? Maybe so if you ignore your diabetes, forget your insulin and never do a blood test? My mother was T1 for 57 years, most of those before the benefit of blood testing, died at 78, and she'd still be alive if she hadn't smoked as well. I'm 55, T1 for 47 years, many of those pre blood testing, have by no means perfect blood sugars (because I have a life outside diabetes), but still expect/hope to make it to 80.... Remember the statistics about diabetic health and mortality are skewed by the fact that diabetes treatments used to be far less good than they are now.</p><p></p><p>And my friends, family and co-workers have always known about my diabetes and no one's made a big deal out of it. The only time it's been really difficult was when I was pregnant and had some uncontrolled hypos, but even those were manageable with help from friends. (Actually, I think that time was worse for my husband, he had to see me go through some bad hypos!)</p><p></p><p>Honestly, I think you both need to get help from your gps about depression. Once you've done that then you'll find it much easier to take control of your diabetes and go back to a normal life, albeit with some inconvenience regarding diet and blood testing/injecting. Good luck, get help, you can get through this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 1658417, member: 372717"] I don't know who you've both been talking to about diabetic life expectancies??? Maybe so if you ignore your diabetes, forget your insulin and never do a blood test? My mother was T1 for 57 years, most of those before the benefit of blood testing, died at 78, and she'd still be alive if she hadn't smoked as well. I'm 55, T1 for 47 years, many of those pre blood testing, have by no means perfect blood sugars (because I have a life outside diabetes), but still expect/hope to make it to 80.... Remember the statistics about diabetic health and mortality are skewed by the fact that diabetes treatments used to be far less good than they are now. And my friends, family and co-workers have always known about my diabetes and no one's made a big deal out of it. The only time it's been really difficult was when I was pregnant and had some uncontrolled hypos, but even those were manageable with help from friends. (Actually, I think that time was worse for my husband, he had to see me go through some bad hypos!) Honestly, I think you both need to get help from your gps about depression. Once you've done that then you'll find it much easier to take control of your diabetes and go back to a normal life, albeit with some inconvenience regarding diet and blood testing/injecting. Good luck, get help, you can get through this. [/QUOTE]
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