Wow many congratulations to you. Once you get your head around the pump I'm sure you will be fine. Take one day at a time and anything you don't understand ask. Smart thinking on buying the book as well.Hi. I have been Type 1 for 52years. Now 74years and very soon going on a pump. Bit apprehensive but after reading Pumping Insulin and going on DAFNE course feel ready to take on the challenge.
Many congratulations BillSitting here with a big smile. Today it was my turn to get the 50 year medal and very nice it is too. You know, it has really brought the memories back of all the changes (good and bad) over those many years and how the heck I managed it I'll never know. I should maybe take some time out to calculate just how many injections I've given myself or draw up a list of some of the daftest most ridiculous places and situations I've been in when trying to take the injections. Now I want to start a collection so it's time to begin working hard to get the one for 60 years!
Bill
I was unfortunately found by my husband in a diabetic coma in January this year, unfortunately this has left me with a brain injury, I am now under a diabetic team at GWH in swindon and the head injury team at GRH IN Gloucester so living half way between the 2 I spend a lot of my time travelling to either 1 hospital or the other. I do realise that I am 1 of the lucky ones though.Yes I have been diabetic type 1 since the age of 10! In March this year I clocked up 43 years as a type 1 diabetic
I was unfortunately found by my husband in a diabetic coma in January this year, unfortunately this has left me with a brain injury, I am now under a diabetic team at GWH in swindon and the head injury team at GRH IN Gloucester so living half way between the 2 I spend a lot of my time travelling to either 1 hospital or the other. I do realise that I am 1 of the lucky ones though.
Congratulations. 50 years next year. Hoping to get my medal then.Sitting here with a big smile. Today it was my turn to get the 50 year medal and very nice it is too. You know, it has really brought the memories back of all the changes (good and bad) over those many years and how the heck I managed it I'll never know. I should maybe take some time out to calculate just how many injections I've given myself or draw up a list of some of the daftest most ridiculous places and situations I've been in when trying to take the injections. Now I want to start a collection so it's time to begin working hard to get the one for 60 years!
Bill
My diabetes hero, Dr Richard K Bernstein is turning 80 this year and has been living with diabetes since childhood - not only has he reversed most of his own complications since coming up with his plan, he's helped countless patients as well. The man is a living legend!
WOW!!!!! you look fantastic indy51.. i presume that the photo was taken about a week ago?My diabetes hero, Dr Richard K Bernstein is turning 80 this year and has been living with diabetes since childhood - not only has he reversed most of his own complications since coming up with his plan, he's helped countless patients as well. The man is a living legend!
LOL. I am your long-lost twin!Ugh the dreaded glass and metal syringes. Needles the thickness of rope lol. I still can't stomach the smell of surgical spirit even now. My mum was always forgeting my syringes were boiling away in a saucepan and they'd end up black!!! I remember my mum sitting me at the table with a pack of coloured pencils the night before my childhood appointments and I'd literally have to colour in/make up my test tube log book results. Thinking about it, it's no wonder I've been a **** diabetic with my history. How am i not dead??? lol
Many thanks folks regarding my medal. Much appreciated. Ladybird, I remember all that so well. I grew up in a household with a type 1 mother and grandmother. Each had different glass syringes. My grandmother's was a 'record' fitting and I remember the base of the needles to be much narrower to fit on the end of her syringe. Both myself and mother had luer fitting syringes which seemed to be a bit wider at their top. Every night we had three pots boiling each of our syringes. How daft thinking about it, when we could have placed them all in the one bl**dy pot. Do you remember the little trays of needles? Each one having to also be boiled and expected to last around 10 days! Huge they were too. I remember my mother telling me that gran originally used benedicts solution to test her urine and that the test tube was held over one of the cooker's gas rings to heat it.
The one thing I also remember is the diet sheet I was given when I left hospital and which was used for years. Things like, '2 potatoes no larger than a hens egg', 2 oz of butter maximum, 2 digestives, which I could swop for 3 tea biscuits or nine (!) cream crackers. My sunday treat was always the 6d bars of Walls ice cream (without the wafers - perish the thought). I loved sundays! Oh, and the diabetic fruit cakes sealed up in a tin - access only with a can-opener.
Sadly my great grandmother died from the illness as there was no insulin. I think are all now very fortunate in what's available to help us with the condition.
Bill
LOL. I am your long-lost twin!
It all seems so crazy in retrospect, doesn't it? Looking back, I think I was scared out of my wits till I was about 30!
Did any of you long-timers ever go to Diabetes Camp. I used to see the pictures in Balance Magazine sometimes and long to go. But you know, I never asked. Strange.
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