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Hey everyone, here goes...

- What is your name?
Ruby
- How old are you?
28
- Are you male or female?
female
- Which country are you from?
UK (England)
- Which city/area do you live in?
Bristol
- Are you religious?
Yes
- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Shy, geeky, Kind
- Do you have any pets?
No
- Microsoft or Apple?
Both
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking
- Do you get angry easily?
No
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
Not really
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.
Linkin Park, Tupac Shakur, 36 Crazyfists, Prince , Led Zeppelin
Rock band

- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
Rock
- What is your favourite flag?
Dont really have one
- Ever gone camping?
no really
- Ever been in love?
Yes
- Ever used a fake tan?
No
- Which countries have you visited?
France, USA
- Favourite city?
New York
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Stargate, Warehouse Eureka, Highlander
- List your five favourite films.
There are so many I can't even pick one lol!
- Are you wealthy?
No
- Do you work? If so, as what?
I'm a Health enthusiast and blogger
- List the subjects you study/have studied.
Math, BSc Computer Science, BSc Multimedia, Health
- What do you like most about yourself?
I'm always kind and sweet with everyone I guess
- What do you like least about yourself?
my weight
 
- What is your name? Patrick
- How old are you? 44
- Are you male or female? male
- Which country are you from? Canada
- Which city/area do you live in? Montreal
- Are you religious? Oh! God no
- Pick three words to describe your personality: shy, geek, selfless
- Do you have any pets? yes, 2 very clingy cats
- Microsoft or Apple? Microsoft
- Do you get angry easily? no
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? small arm tattoo...was 19, so dumb, thought it was so "deep" back then.
- List your five favourite musicians/bands. Kreator, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Vader
- What would you say your favourite music genre is? Heavy/Thrash, Death, Melodic metal
- Ever gone camping? yes and hated every second of it except the drinking
- Ever been in love? Unfortunately, yes
- Ever used fake tan? no
- Which countries have you visited? USA
- Favourite city? mine I guess
- List your five favourite TV programmes. The Office, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, How I met your mother, Survivor
- List your five favourite films. Jaws, Halloween, Fight Club, The Exorcist, Dawn Of The Dead
- Are you wealthy? See answer to Are you religious? question
- Do you work? If so, as what? got 2 jobs, retail and food delivery
- List the subjects you study/have studied. Creative Arts, Management, Computer Science
- What do you like most about yourself? kindness
- What do you like least about yourself? Too many to list

Single father of two teenagers/young adults, diagnosed last January, instantly went through major lifestyle changes, lost 50lbs, reading went from 16 mmol in the morning before breakfast to 5.2-5.5 on average. Pretty proud of myself

Nice to meet you all and looking foward to interact and learn to better myself even more.
 
Just joined. I have been type 2 diabetic for twenty years or so but a near fatal encounter with Covid around New Year meant I have now got to use insulin. That in itself is a minefield trying to work out the correct dose, what blood sugar levels can I achieve etc. Hopefully I will get there before too long.
I am now a "Used to be". Had many careers but Muscular Dystrophy took them away from me. Currently run a weather station , although I am not sure how much longer I can do that. Believe me retirement is not all it is cracked up to be.

Mike
 
Hello Everyone ,
New person on the block.
I have been recently diagnosed prediabetes last week and I am not sure that taken metformin is the right way to go for me. I already take three tablets a day one for my hypertension, cholesterol, and one for my depression, to which I have been suffering for over 20 years.

I concerned about that the "Metformin" will have an effect on those medications that I take. I am 60 years old and live on my own and very single, but would like to control my diabetes by the herbal route.

I am not the the best of cook but have purchased to cook books for who have diabetes, to which there are some very interesting recipes, which I shall have ago at cooking.

Terry
 
I’m Richard, an active 75 year old living in Altrincham. I am married to Jayne and we’re without children. We used to be cocker spaniel owners, several in fact and are currently thinking about another.
I am a retired self employed statistician and was a magistrate for 20 years.
I now volunteer regularly at Manchester Crown Court, supporting witnesses when they give evidence and families who have lost members of their family through crime. It’s a good job we do because the criminal justice system tends to ignore them until the moment they appear in court.
I support and am a season ticket holder at my local club, Manchester United (through thick and thin - pretty thin at the moment, but we had our time). I am also a Rugby League fan supporting Wigan Warriors.
I started to play the piano about 3 years ago as I have a real love of music of almost any genre. Classical and Opera lead the list, but I’m not immune to the attractions and immediacy of jazz, rock and pop, though Coldplay really leave me cold.
I have been healthy all my life until the last 12 months, but refuse to let my recent panic visits to hospital get me down. Fortunately I love a good book, fiction and non-fiction, and often have 3 or 4 on the go. Just finished Alan Cumming’s Not My Father’s Son, which was excellent.
 
- What is your name?
Evgenia
- How old are you?
26
- Are you male or female?
Female
- Which country are you from?
Russia (I don't like Putin if it's important)
- Which city/area do you live in?
Smolensk
- Are you religious?
No. I almost died after someone told my mom that diabetes can be cured by prayer
- Pick three words to describe your personality
Bookwarms, calm, absent-minded
- Do you have any pets?
No, but I have a ficus
- Microsoft or Apple?
Apple
- Do you get angry easily?
No
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings?
No
- List your five favourite musicians/bands. I have absolutely no musical hearing.
- What would you say your favourite music genre is?
It is strange, but I can't tell the difference between two songs of the same genre
- Ever gone camping?
No
- Ever been in love?
Yes
- Ever used fake tan?
no
- Which countries have you visited?
Ukraine, Belarus
- Favourite city?
Saint-Petersburg
- List your five favourite TV programmes.

- List your five favourite films.
Fight Club, The Shawshank Redemption, Zootopia
- Are you wealthy?
No
- Do you work?
Frontend-developer
- List the subjects you study/have studied. Computer Science, Math, Physics
- What do you like most about yourself? Courage
- What do you like least about yourself?
inattention

If you are looking for friends, I will be glad to communicate
 
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Hello, I'm Erin, my mum is diabetic, I'm really worried about her, I've registered here to give and receive support
 
Hello everybody!


What is your name? Emma

- How old are you? 45

- Are you male or female? Female

- Which country are you from? Uk

- Which city/area do you live in? Londoner in Liverpool

- Are you religious? No

- Pick three words to describe your personality.
Driven compassionate sarcastic

- Do you have any pets? Yep cats, Jasper and Edgar.

- Microsoft or Apple? Apple at home, microsoft at work

- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play? I like watching tennis

- Do you get angry easily? No I repress my anger like a good Brit

- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? Tattoos- sleeve on right arm, various tattoos across the rest of me. Nose and ear piercings

- List your five favourite musicians/
Queen, Radiohead, stromae, pet shop boys, jay-z

- What would you say your favourite music genre is? Across the spectrum really

- What is your favourite flag? Pride flags

- Ever gone camping? Nope, too much of a princess

- Ever been in love? A few times

- Ever used fake tan? Yes I’m so pale I’m see through

- Which countries have you visited? Germany France Australia Antigua Tenerife Belgium

- Favourite city?Liverpool

- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Whose line is it anyway, Bob Ross, Alan partridge, Phoenix Nights, breaking bad, the wire, battle star gallactica, Star Trek tng

- List your five favourite films.
Belleville rendezvous, truly madly deeply, alien, the mist, little miss sunshine

- Are you wealthy?
Not financially

- Do you work? If so, as what?
Therapist in the NHS

- List the subjects you study/have studied.
A levels RE Music and English
Degree psychology
Postgrad mental health nursing
EMDR therapy
compassion focussed therapy
CBt

- What do you like most about yourself?
My resilience and my humour

- What do you like least about yourself?
My weight and my overthinking
 
What is your name?
Clive or Fred or Lobsang depending upon who you ask
How old are you?
57
Which country are you from?
England
Which city/area do you live in?
North-east
Are you religious?
Probably not as much as people expect me to be.
Pick three words to describe your personality.
Quiet, noisy, indecisive
Microsoft or Apple?
Microsoft... who in their right mind pays the Apple premium?
Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?
Tai Chi
Do you get angry easily?
I don't think so...
List your five favourite musicians/bands.
My daughter, Christy Moore, Steeleye Span, Queen, Paul Simon
What would you say your favourite music genre is?
Almost anything apart from freeform jazz, rap and its derivatives, disco and boy bands (though I've got a soft spot for the Beatles and the Monkees)
What is your favourite flag?
Depends on which country I'm in and who's asking...
Ever gone camping?
Yep, even enjoyed it.
Ever been in love?
Yep, enjoyed that too.
Ever used fake tan?
Whatever for?
Which countries have you visited?
England, Wales, Scotland, France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Malta, Gambia, India
Favourite city?
Don't really like cities, enjoyed being in McLeod Ganj.
Do you work? If so, as what?
I'm a monk.
List the subjects you study/have studied.
BSc (Hons) Ecology, Buddhist philosophy
 
Well, my name is Liz, female, from Hampshire and in shock. Last week, at the ripe age of 66 diagnosed as type 1, following an excursion to the horizontal, more than once, with DKA!
So I’m the oldest L plated pricker in town(!)
I had my retirement all planned out but now need to take this into account.
I was a nurse, love travelling, have a fabulous family and married to the long-suffering for 46 years.
Discovering that dealing with diabetes as a nurse does not prepare me for holding a diagnosis.
DUK is proving a godsend for me. Thank you
 

Hello Liz & welcome to the forum.

you know, you don’t need to give up life for T1.
 
Jaylee said:
Hello Liz & welcome to the forum.

you know, you don’t need to give up life for T1.
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Thank you for your welcome. It is all very complicated though. Like being an alien crash-landing in Tescos. So much to learn in such a short time when the old brain is tucked away in the off position. Hopefully I’ll get there- it’s only been a month. My Diabetes Community Team are so good so that helps.
Keep up the amazing work xx
 
 
Hey.....
 
 
Hi everyone, thanks for including me!
My name is Gilli
I am 64 years old
Female
and from the UK
I live in Kent
I have a Christian faith, but I really hope I'm not 'religious'!!
Hardest question, this, but I think I am patient, outgoing, kind
My favourite musicians include: Take That, Les Miserable (I acknowledge that is cheating)
I like light classical music and most things from the '60s
I enjoy quiz programmes (eg. The Chase, Lingo, Tenable, Mastermind,)
detective/crime dramas and some documentaries
5 films??? The King's Speech, Forest Gump, The Railway Children, Schindler's List and most of Tom Hanks films
I retired 6 months ago from 40 years in primary school education - and I'm enjoying it!
 
 
- What is your name?

Amanda

- How old are you?

Depends on the time of day, as old as 20 first thing in the morning, frequently as old as 90 by 8pm. Having said that, being 54 the rest of the time is great as I am much bolder about not being constrained by other people’s views.

- Are you male or female?

I am female as far as I know, but I have been wrong about so many things, who knows?

- Which country are you from?

I live in the UK and only 10 miles from where I grew up.

- Which city/area do you live in?

In the countryside between Swindon & Oxford.

- Are you religious?

Tricky question.

- Pick three words to describe your personality.

Maverick, independent, complex

- Do you have any pets? I have a dog, but she is not really a pet, more a sort of house controller making sure we all do as she says.....

- Microsoft or Apple? Both

- Ever gone camping? Yes, last weekend, love it - when I get time!

- Favourite city?

Venice – I went there with Mum for what turned out to be her last birthday before she died, so it holds very special memories for me.

- Are you wealthy?

Gloriously; I have a roof over my head, food in my fridge and a dog by my side. Who needs more than that? I have not always been so lucky and I am grateful on a daily basis for everything I have.

- Do you work? If so, as what?

I am a Civil Servant 2 days a week and I try to get people to pay their invoices (credit control). The team I work with is wonderful and I am very lucky!

- List the subjects you study/have studied.

I am in my final (I hope!!!!) year of a BSc in Nutritional Science, and then later this year I will complete a diploma in Nutritional Coaching. These will be used alongside the Personal Trainer and Level 3 Health Referral specialist qualifications that I already have.



“A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.”
― Steve Maraboli
 
Hi all,

I'm Jacques and I'm here mainly because a family member has recently been diagnosed with type 2 and I wanted to find an active community to be able to find answers to all the different lifestyle ajustements that might happen in the next few months.

We currently live in Berlin, Germany. I work as a freelance product manager in software currently.

Looking forward to greet some of you.
 
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