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<blockquote data-quote="Flowerpot" data-source="post: 533424" data-attributes="member: 47217"><p>Hi Lisbet</p><p></p><p>Very enjoyable blog, I agree with what you say. I have muddled through for the past 36 years and only in the last few years since pumps became more common and forums developed have I really started to get it.</p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed in the 70s my parents told me I shouldn't tell anyone I had diabetes, I assumed it was because I had done something awful to deserve it. The urine tests meant very little to me, the test tube went either orange or blue. One thing I clearly remember about being diagnosed was being forced to go hypo before being sent home from hospital. I used carbohydrate exchanges and blundered along. I still have never done a carbohydrate counting course but have educated myself through the DOC and reading, I was the only person on a pump 12 years ago at my then hospital and the nurse used to say that I would have to teach her what I found out as I went along. Sadly my years of rebellion didn't go smoothly and I ended up losing my sight. I have a small amount of sight in one eye.</p><p></p><p>I had a discussion with a drugs rep at the pump clinic and we were saying how despite the lack of home monitoring in previous decades we are still here. It was a real revelation to me reading on forums that there was no getting it right and that others struggled just as much me.</p><p></p><p>I find the lament of the mothers quite distressing, it is a manageable condition with ever increasing ways to monitor and control it. My Mum used to tell me not to make a fuss, I remember one hypo when she said "don't you dare do that again". No weeping over my situation!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flowerpot, post: 533424, member: 47217"] Hi Lisbet Very enjoyable blog, I agree with what you say. I have muddled through for the past 36 years and only in the last few years since pumps became more common and forums developed have I really started to get it. I was diagnosed in the 70s my parents told me I shouldn't tell anyone I had diabetes, I assumed it was because I had done something awful to deserve it. The urine tests meant very little to me, the test tube went either orange or blue. One thing I clearly remember about being diagnosed was being forced to go hypo before being sent home from hospital. I used carbohydrate exchanges and blundered along. I still have never done a carbohydrate counting course but have educated myself through the DOC and reading, I was the only person on a pump 12 years ago at my then hospital and the nurse used to say that I would have to teach her what I found out as I went along. Sadly my years of rebellion didn't go smoothly and I ended up losing my sight. I have a small amount of sight in one eye. I had a discussion with a drugs rep at the pump clinic and we were saying how despite the lack of home monitoring in previous decades we are still here. It was a real revelation to me reading on forums that there was no getting it right and that others struggled just as much me. I find the lament of the mothers quite distressing, it is a manageable condition with ever increasing ways to monitor and control it. My Mum used to tell me not to make a fuss, I remember one hypo when she said "don't you dare do that again". No weeping over my situation! [/QUOTE]
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