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<blockquote data-quote="Sula" data-source="post: 255013" data-attributes="member: 8918"><p>I put up with it but I try not think about having this for the rest of my life as it is too depressing. Within my family I feel a freak, the person who can't join in normal family life because of the dietary restrictions, I also feel like the skeleton at the feast putting a damper on everything, no I can't eat that, no I can't drink that. I grieve for my former life and as I have not been able to control my diet for the last 8 months after 3 years of very tight control, I worry terribly about the damage I am doing. I am due my yearly Hb1Ac but I haven't been, I am also due to go to the Opticians for an eye check but as there is glaucoma, macular degeneration in my family this together with diabetic neuropathy makes me afraid to go. Basically I find being diabetic enormously stressful as I have to cook for my family and don't want to impose my dietary misery on them but I sometimes think it is not much of a life and only another diabetic can understand what that means. I guess this means I have not accepted it and to be honest I live my life feeling one day I will be cured. I also find it frustrating, since I am the only one in all of my family with diabetes, not even knowing WHY I am diabetic. Sorry for such a negative post but I am in a bit of a black hole with diabetes at the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sula, post: 255013, member: 8918"] I put up with it but I try not think about having this for the rest of my life as it is too depressing. Within my family I feel a freak, the person who can't join in normal family life because of the dietary restrictions, I also feel like the skeleton at the feast putting a damper on everything, no I can't eat that, no I can't drink that. I grieve for my former life and as I have not been able to control my diet for the last 8 months after 3 years of very tight control, I worry terribly about the damage I am doing. I am due my yearly Hb1Ac but I haven't been, I am also due to go to the Opticians for an eye check but as there is glaucoma, macular degeneration in my family this together with diabetic neuropathy makes me afraid to go. Basically I find being diabetic enormously stressful as I have to cook for my family and don't want to impose my dietary misery on them but I sometimes think it is not much of a life and only another diabetic can understand what that means. I guess this means I have not accepted it and to be honest I live my life feeling one day I will be cured. I also find it frustrating, since I am the only one in all of my family with diabetes, not even knowing WHY I am diabetic. Sorry for such a negative post but I am in a bit of a black hole with diabetes at the moment. [/QUOTE]
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