People that feel just because diabates is a life-threatening "illness" it should be treated with kid gloves and nobody is allowed to have a laugh. My humour got me through abuse, near death experiences, serious and debilitating illnesses and lifelong pain and deformity - why give up the thing that works??
Thanks everyone for your kind words. GP was over effusive and has palmed me off to the DN - which is kinda nice, GP was a tad dictatorial for my taste. No more monthly blood lettings and on to a, presumably, six month cycle - will find out more when I make my first visit to a diabetes clinic.