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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yinkoos" data-source="post: 253498" data-attributes="member: 26074">At the age of 9 I watched  my father die of multiple organ failure after battling diabetes 2  for 11 years. He was my entire world . I watched a mighty and proud man destroyed by diabetes, he had a massive stroke on  20th September  1968 and died 9 days later. The loss of my father created a turmoil in my family life. It left my mother penniless and vulnerable; mind you this is Africa, I with seven siblings and a 33year old mother. From a very young age I was introduced to the cruelest of the cruel diseases. Diabetes is like a war general and the way it deploys other diseases and complications to wear down your natural body defences and immunity is what makes it dreadful.I prepared for diabetes 2  from the age of 9 and the first symptons arrived promptly when I turned 40, frequent urinations at night and erectile malfunction. I said to myself 'at I'm lucky I am in England where this disease can be managed better' I have had immense support and help from various health professionals deployed to help you manage diabetes, but despite all these helps the diseases have made steady progress in the 12 years since I have had it. I did not get any sympathy from ignorant people who blame me for the cause of my own diabetes because I eat two much sugar. Any  type 2 diabetic knows that the first thing to give up is sugar of every shape or form.Currently I suffer from all spectrums of diabetic complications ranging from shoulder pains, blurry/ deteriorating visions, chronic fatigue, etc. I have had illnesses like liver abcess and pancreatitis when even consultants who should know better thought it was down to my drinking alchohol which I hardly ever touch. The various forms and guises with which diabetes 2 attack you can fool even the best professional. I have had stroke which thankfully was ischemic/transient so the effect is not too bad. Having read all this I can tell you that the only part of diabetes that I accept is understanding my father's ordeal because when he had it I was  young and did not understand why he died at a relatively young age of 52. I do not accept diabetes in any other form. I just cope with diabetes and accept all the helps that I can from the health professionals who are deployed to aid you in containing this dreadful illness.I am now 53 years just to put things in perspective 1 year further than my dad lived and have faced every war diabetes has waged on me so far. on me so far.</blockquote>

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