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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1757299" data-attributes="member: 372717">That just happens to be the age of perfectly healthy T1s who post on these boards.  The ones who are 70, 80,90 tend not to be so computer literate and so don't post on boards.  My T1 mother died at 78 and yes her health was poor for last 8 years (she had a heart bypass at age 70) and she was in a wheelchair for last 6 months. The main reason her health was poor (and the reason she's not still alive) was that she smoked until she was 70 and she messed up her lungs (they wanted to do a quadruple bypass but couldn't because of her lungs).  As regards the T1, her first 30 years of diabetes (and pregnancies) was spent without glucometers, let alone insulin pumps, cgms, human insulin or even disposable syringes.  And during her last 8 years she still enjoyed a very busy life, winning awards for her photographic hobby that she took up in retirement.Everyone dies eventually,  diabetic or non diabetic.  If you start searching google for illnesses, whether diabetic or not, you'll come up with a myriad of illnesses that you might have now or might get in a few years.</blockquote>

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