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<blockquote data-quote="Grant_Vicat" data-source="post: 2514847" data-attributes="member: 388932"><p>I got it at 11 months. My mother would have been nearly 40 and had a very old-fashioned view to illness. If the 3 of her children had a headache, we were sent to bed with a glass of water. In many ways I'm grateful as I have never relied on unnecessary medication. She didn't fully understand diabetes, but never deliberately tried to ignore advice. My father, who was 29 when I was diagnosed, had the fortune of being a naval nurse when he did his National Service. He was taught to give injections and did up to 3oo of penicillin a day, for what are now known as STD's! I was injected by both of them until I was 8, and to this day, my father remains the finest injector I have ever known, even with the old "knitting needles"! Twenty years later I had my own blood testing kit, and when visiting my parents, my mother would usually offer me a chocolate. "I'll just check whether I can"</p><p>"Surely one's not going to hurt?"</p><p>"Er yes it is, I'm 10.4".</p><p>"Oh, bad luck".</p><p>I have never felt critical, and regularly remind myself that I owe my existence to them and, obviously, Frederick Banting! It is also worth quoting my late stepmother, who trained in the 1950's as a doctor. She told me that with diabetes they didn't really know what they were doing, but were grateful if they managed to keep patients alive!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grant_Vicat, post: 2514847, member: 388932"] I got it at 11 months. My mother would have been nearly 40 and had a very old-fashioned view to illness. If the 3 of her children had a headache, we were sent to bed with a glass of water. In many ways I'm grateful as I have never relied on unnecessary medication. She didn't fully understand diabetes, but never deliberately tried to ignore advice. My father, who was 29 when I was diagnosed, had the fortune of being a naval nurse when he did his National Service. He was taught to give injections and did up to 3oo of penicillin a day, for what are now known as STD's! I was injected by both of them until I was 8, and to this day, my father remains the finest injector I have ever known, even with the old "knitting needles"! Twenty years later I had my own blood testing kit, and when visiting my parents, my mother would usually offer me a chocolate. "I'll just check whether I can" "Surely one's not going to hurt?" "Er yes it is, I'm 10.4". "Oh, bad luck". I have never felt critical, and regularly remind myself that I owe my existence to them and, obviously, Frederick Banting! It is also worth quoting my late stepmother, who trained in the 1950's as a doctor. She told me that with diabetes they didn't really know what they were doing, but were grateful if they managed to keep patients alive! [/QUOTE]
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