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Apologies for repeating what so many others have said, but at this moment I am so angry and I have absolutely no one to share with!
I feel like admitting to being diabetic is becomming a bit like admitting to being a fat lazy slob who does nothing but stuff mars bars and Big Macs all day. I walk my kids to school, ride bikes with them at the weekend, drink green tea in Costa whilst the rest stuff chocolate tiffins... I go to the gym...
I apologise for the rant... I've just come back from a meeting where I was basically told to get off my backside and get active as that was clearly the reason I have diabetes. Yesterday it was because I have a sugar addiction and spent my life eating the wrong foods.
Now, I can understand my son's friend asking me if being fat was why I have diabetes. (I have a BMI of 29 - about 2 stone overweight) He's ten and only knows what he sees on the TV and hears in the school... There's a huge drive to get them eating healthy at school so obviously threatening them with some diseases like diabetes if they eat chips seemed to be a good idea!!! And now, because word is getting out that I'm diabetic, there's an army of ten year olds who think Connor's mum spends all day in the chip shop...
I remember the first time I admitted I had diabetes to a virtual stranger... I could have been telling them I had the plague. It seems to me that more and more people are starting to think that diabetes is ALWAYS preventable. If you get it, it's because you did something wrong. Or is just where I am and the people I am surrounded with?
As I pulled up to collect my son this afternoon, on my bike so the two of us could cycle home, one kid helpfully relayed his father's comments on my condition... 'lazy people get diabetes cos they can't be bothered to cook properly.'
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... That's better.....
I feel like admitting to being diabetic is becomming a bit like admitting to being a fat lazy slob who does nothing but stuff mars bars and Big Macs all day. I walk my kids to school, ride bikes with them at the weekend, drink green tea in Costa whilst the rest stuff chocolate tiffins... I go to the gym...
I apologise for the rant... I've just come back from a meeting where I was basically told to get off my backside and get active as that was clearly the reason I have diabetes. Yesterday it was because I have a sugar addiction and spent my life eating the wrong foods.
Now, I can understand my son's friend asking me if being fat was why I have diabetes. (I have a BMI of 29 - about 2 stone overweight) He's ten and only knows what he sees on the TV and hears in the school... There's a huge drive to get them eating healthy at school so obviously threatening them with some diseases like diabetes if they eat chips seemed to be a good idea!!! And now, because word is getting out that I'm diabetic, there's an army of ten year olds who think Connor's mum spends all day in the chip shop...
I remember the first time I admitted I had diabetes to a virtual stranger... I could have been telling them I had the plague. It seems to me that more and more people are starting to think that diabetes is ALWAYS preventable. If you get it, it's because you did something wrong. Or is just where I am and the people I am surrounded with?
As I pulled up to collect my son this afternoon, on my bike so the two of us could cycle home, one kid helpfully relayed his father's comments on my condition... 'lazy people get diabetes cos they can't be bothered to cook properly.'
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... That's better.....