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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 362978" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p><strong>Re: Diabetic eye screening result</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What's all this 20 years? According to jackgard, the problem is that she refuses to test blood and won't attend clinics. As noblehead has summarised, she needs to <em>'take her diabetes seriously'</em>. She needs to do that first, to avoid problems in the future and I am quite certain that she is not the only teenager to wish the problem would go away. There are others however who do respond and it would probably be a good idea for her to be in touch with them.</p><p></p><p>If her parents cannot get her to attend clinics, I think they will encounter stiff resistance to any suggestion that she walks around with a stocking on her head and I don't think your advice that 'there is not a lot you can do' is very helpful either. Jackgard has specifically made a post asking for suggestions. Trying to put her in touch with teenagers around her age who also have diabetes may help assuage any anxieties that she has about attending clincs or testing glucose levels. Teenagers want to belong to a group of their peers and not of their parents' generation. The need to belong is great and the idea of being separate is an anathema. She probably needs to talk to other teenagers who have diabetes in order that she can relate to people of her own age who also have the same disease. With that should come acceptance and a more responsive attitude to doing something about it. At the moment she is probably just trying to deny it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 362978, member: 55568"] [b]Re: Diabetic eye screening result[/b] What's all this 20 years? According to jackgard, the problem is that she refuses to test blood and won't attend clinics. As noblehead has summarised, she needs to [i]'take her diabetes seriously'[/i]. She needs to do that first, to avoid problems in the future and I am quite certain that she is not the only teenager to wish the problem would go away. There are others however who do respond and it would probably be a good idea for her to be in touch with them. If her parents cannot get her to attend clinics, I think they will encounter stiff resistance to any suggestion that she walks around with a stocking on her head and I don't think your advice that 'there is not a lot you can do' is very helpful either. Jackgard has specifically made a post asking for suggestions. Trying to put her in touch with teenagers around her age who also have diabetes may help assuage any anxieties that she has about attending clincs or testing glucose levels. Teenagers want to belong to a group of their peers and not of their parents' generation. The need to belong is great and the idea of being separate is an anathema. She probably needs to talk to other teenagers who have diabetes in order that she can relate to people of her own age who also have the same disease. With that should come acceptance and a more responsive attitude to doing something about it. At the moment she is probably just trying to deny it. [/QUOTE]
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