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<blockquote data-quote="sugarybibs" data-source="post: 91984" data-attributes="member: 11003"><p>Hi curlycaz5,so sorry to hear you are having a bad time.I know you were very young when you got diagnosed.I was 17 in the early 1970s i had only just left school and started my first job .Had all the usual symptons terrible thirst,falling asleep,went really skinny (well i was only skinny anyway) couldnt stop eating etc.I was kept in hospital for two weeks full of all old people in ward dying i was really upset as were my parents.As Bmtest said had to use big glass syringes and boil them to reuse.I cried all the time on my own though.I tried to be tough but thought my life had ended and i would end up with no legs blind etc.Now i end up blind drunk and legless!!! :lol: :lol: no only joking.Anyway came out of hospital back to my job.Only told a few friends and they all felt sorry for me but were great.No one has ever understood what i have gone through.But as ive said befor on this site you only get one life and you have got to live it best you can.I had to inject with those big glass syringes we never even had blood glucose monitors and tested your wee not your blood with tablets you put in a sort of test tube to see what colour it went and what your blood sugar was.Well to cut a long story short ive always worked have had 4 kids well not kids now 3 girls one lad none of them have any signs of diabetes.I am very healthy got no complications (thank god) still moan but i am very happy.I go out every weekend and have done since i was 17.I am now 5?!!!not telling you the real age :lol: :lol: I know its very hard and sometimes i get really upset and hate everyone who is not diabetic because they havent a clue what we have to do.But honestly curlycaz5 things will get better i know i have had lots of horrible things happening in my life as well .But i still remember to this day when i was told i had sugar diabetes (thats what they called in the 70s and the only person i know who had it was a little old blind lady in our flats.So of course i was upset and scared.Then i just had to get on with my life and just be like all my mates.i hope curlycaz you feel better soon and dont let this get in your way because there is plenty of help for you and try to speak to a young person like yourself with type 1 diabetes and i am sure you will feel better keep in touch</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sugarybibs, post: 91984, member: 11003"] Hi curlycaz5,so sorry to hear you are having a bad time.I know you were very young when you got diagnosed.I was 17 in the early 1970s i had only just left school and started my first job .Had all the usual symptons terrible thirst,falling asleep,went really skinny (well i was only skinny anyway) couldnt stop eating etc.I was kept in hospital for two weeks full of all old people in ward dying i was really upset as were my parents.As Bmtest said had to use big glass syringes and boil them to reuse.I cried all the time on my own though.I tried to be tough but thought my life had ended and i would end up with no legs blind etc.Now i end up blind drunk and legless!!! :lol: :lol: no only joking.Anyway came out of hospital back to my job.Only told a few friends and they all felt sorry for me but were great.No one has ever understood what i have gone through.But as ive said befor on this site you only get one life and you have got to live it best you can.I had to inject with those big glass syringes we never even had blood glucose monitors and tested your wee not your blood with tablets you put in a sort of test tube to see what colour it went and what your blood sugar was.Well to cut a long story short ive always worked have had 4 kids well not kids now 3 girls one lad none of them have any signs of diabetes.I am very healthy got no complications (thank god) still moan but i am very happy.I go out every weekend and have done since i was 17.I am now 5?!!!not telling you the real age :lol: :lol: I know its very hard and sometimes i get really upset and hate everyone who is not diabetic because they havent a clue what we have to do.But honestly curlycaz5 things will get better i know i have had lots of horrible things happening in my life as well .But i still remember to this day when i was told i had sugar diabetes (thats what they called in the 70s and the only person i know who had it was a little old blind lady in our flats.So of course i was upset and scared.Then i just had to get on with my life and just be like all my mates.i hope curlycaz you feel better soon and dont let this get in your way because there is plenty of help for you and try to speak to a young person like yourself with type 1 diabetes and i am sure you will feel better keep in touch [/QUOTE]
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