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<blockquote data-quote="prancer53" data-source="post: 1731686" data-attributes="member: 85578"><p>It was 57 years last month, with diabetes, no complications so far. Diabetes is a pain in the backside but it has never stopped me doing anything. My Mother sent me to ballet lessons to "keep the sugar down" and at 16 I auditioned successfully for a place at a professional ballet school. The intensity and long hours of training meant I needed to lower my insulin consistently until I was taking very little otherwise it was impossible to get to the end of each 90 minute class due to hypos. Any day that I didn't do classes I needed to go back to my normal doses. Working in the theatre with daily classes, rehearsals and performances also kept blood sugar low. When I stopped dancing I worked in advertising for 10 years, hours were long and it involved a lot of driving and staying in hotels. I had 2 children (7lbs and 6lbs 7 ozs so diabetes didn't affect their birth weights). At 47 I was accepted for a dance degree and graduated at 50. I then did post graduate teacher training at The Royal Academy of Dance in London, for a year, and worked as a teacher until <u>my very recent</u> retirement at 64 1/2. As a qualified teacher I was also accepted to organise and deliver youth activities on the Queen Mary 2 and Britannia during school holidays (the photo on the left was during a visit to Tenerife on the Britannia, 2 years ago). Now I have retired I have enrolled for more ballet classes as I will have the time to enjoy them once more as well as "keep the sugar down".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prancer53, post: 1731686, member: 85578"] It was 57 years last month, with diabetes, no complications so far. Diabetes is a pain in the backside but it has never stopped me doing anything. My Mother sent me to ballet lessons to "keep the sugar down" and at 16 I auditioned successfully for a place at a professional ballet school. The intensity and long hours of training meant I needed to lower my insulin consistently until I was taking very little otherwise it was impossible to get to the end of each 90 minute class due to hypos. Any day that I didn't do classes I needed to go back to my normal doses. Working in the theatre with daily classes, rehearsals and performances also kept blood sugar low. When I stopped dancing I worked in advertising for 10 years, hours were long and it involved a lot of driving and staying in hotels. I had 2 children (7lbs and 6lbs 7 ozs so diabetes didn't affect their birth weights). At 47 I was accepted for a dance degree and graduated at 50. I then did post graduate teacher training at The Royal Academy of Dance in London, for a year, and worked as a teacher until [U]my very recent[/U] retirement at 64 1/2. As a qualified teacher I was also accepted to organise and deliver youth activities on the Queen Mary 2 and Britannia during school holidays (the photo on the left was during a visit to Tenerife on the Britannia, 2 years ago). Now I have retired I have enrolled for more ballet classes as I will have the time to enjoy them once more as well as "keep the sugar down". [/QUOTE]
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