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Hello Barbara ,
I'm from Newtownabbey and my son is a biomedical scientist . I hope your enjoying retirement .
 
Lorraine deer said:
Hello Barbara ,
I'm from Newtownabbey and my son is a biomedical scientist . I hope your enjoying retirement .
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Would be enjoying it better if I wasn't diabetic! I gave up work as I never had time to stop all day so often went from breakfast at 7.00am (got up at 4.30am to do horses) until 9.00pm when I had put the horses to bed without anything to eat or drink and I knew I could no longer do that and keep healthy with diabetes. As a biomedical scientist your son will be able to keep an eye on you and spell out the dire consequences of not keeping your glucose levels under control!!!!!
 
- What is your name? Andy
- How old are you? 58
- Are you male or female? Male
- Which country are you from? Wales
- Which city/area do you live in? Carmarthenshire
- Are you religious? No
- Do you have any pets? Cats
- Do you get angry easily? Less so, these days.
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? No.
- List your five favourite musicians/bands. Fairport Convention, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Steeleye Span & Philip Glass
- What would you say your favourite music genre is? Folk-Rock
- Ever gone camping? Only at Cropredy Festival
- Ever been in love? Yes
- Ever used fake tan? No! (Yuck)
- Which countries have you visited? Lots
- List your five favourite TV programmes. Elementary, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Mock The Week, The X-Files
- List your five favourite films. Field Of Dreams, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Watchmen, Koyaanisqatsi, Star Trek: The Search For Spock
- Are you wealthy? Ha! Ha! Ha! No
- Do you work? If so, as what? Photographer
- List the subjects you study/have studied. Physics, Computers, Project Management

Type 2 diabetic, married for many years.
 
susieallday said:
Hi there, most people call me Susie, I am have been a type 1 for 20yrs but new to this, so, please be gentle with me, am looking forward to getting to know you folks

- What is your name? Susan
- How old are you? 54 with the mind and outlook of a 34yr old (so I was told) ha, ha,
- Are you male or female? F
- Which country are you from? England
- Which city/area do you live in? Norfolk
- Are you religious?
- Pick three words to describe your personality.Clown
- Do you have any pets?Alfred my dog
- Microsoft or Apple?M
- Which sport(s) (if any) do you like/play?Hiking
- Do you get angry easily? sometimes
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?Yes, Tatts
- List your five favourite musicians/bands.Awolnation, ???????? cant think at the moment
- What would you say your favourite music genre is? Rock
- What is your favourite flag?
- Ever gone camping?Yes and love it
- Ever been in love? Ofcourse
- Ever used fake tan? Yes, lol
- Which countries have you visited? A few
- Favourite city?
- List your five favourite TV programmes.
- List your five favourite films.
- Are you wealthy? in family love
- Do you work? If so, as what? P/A
- List the subjects you study/have studied.A&P, Psychotherapy, boring really!!!!!
- What do you like most about yourself? I can make people smile
- What do you like least about yourself? I smoke
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Welcome Susie. I'm fairly new too, I think you'll find this forum extremely supportive and loads of good tips.
 
Arab Horse said:
What is your name?
Barbara

- How old are you?
70

- Are you male or female?
Female

- Which country are you from?
United Kingdom

- Which city/area do you live in?
East Anglia

- Are you religious?
Not really but believe in "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

- Do you have any pets?
I have several Arab horses

- Microsoft or Apple?
Microsoft!

- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where?
No

- What is your favourite flag?
Union Jack of course (nice we have kept it)!

- Ever gone camping?
Many years ago but it usually rained!

- Ever been in love?
A few times

- Ever used fake tan?
No

- Which countries have you visited?
USA, France, Spain, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, India, Nepal, Egypt, Morocco, Hong Kong, Thailand. I worked in Saudi Arabia for several years and as my dad was in the RAF I have lived in Germany, Tripoli and Singapore.

- Favourite city?
No real favourite, so many lovely places.

- List your five favourite TV programmes.
Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey, + documentaries/medical/scientific/nature programmes

- Are you wealthy?
Equity rich, cash poor!!!!

- Do you work? If so, as what?
Gave up middle of this year. Was a biomedical scientist.

- What do you like most about yourself?
I'm still alive!!!

- What do you like least about yourself?
Being diabetic. Really miss all the lovely things I could eat before I knew. I went for coffee with friends yesterday and they all had lovely things to eat and I had a cup of black coffee; love black coffee, always drunk it that way, but previously I would have had the lovely prawn and mayo sandwich/carrot cake/cheese scone etc. that the others had. Sigh!
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Welcome Barbara
 
AndyLeslie said:
- What is your name? Andy
- How old are you? 58
- Are you male or female? Male
- Which country are you from? Wales
- Which city/area do you live in? Carmarthenshire
- Are you religious? No
- Do you have any pets? Cats
- Do you get angry easily? Less so, these days.
- Do you have any tattoos or piercings? If so, where? No.
- List your five favourite musicians/bands. Fairport Convention, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Steeleye Span & Philip Glass
- What would you say your favourite music genre is? Folk-Rock
- Ever gone camping? Only at Cropredy Festival
- Ever been in love? Yes
- Ever used fake tan? No! (Yuck)
- Which countries have you visited? Lots
- List your five favourite TV programmes. Elementary, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Mock The Week, The X-Files
- List your five favourite films. Field Of Dreams, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Watchmen, Koyaanisqatsi, Star Trek: The Search For Spock
- Are you wealthy? Ha! Ha! Ha! No
- Do you work? If so, as what? Photographer
- List the subjects you study/have studied. Physics, Computers, Project Management

Type 2 diabetic, married for many years.
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Welcome to the forum Andy
 
pavlovsdog said:
Welcome Susie. I'm fairly new too, I think you'll find this forum extremely supportive and loads of good tips.
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Thank you for your warm welcome, although a bit late on my reply, but, with one thing and another.........anyway still trawling around the site and i have to say its very interesting and somewhat informative, i hope to put my ten penneth in at some point, i usually do!!!!!!!
 
Hi Susieallday and welcome. Can I ask a question? Well I'm going to anyway.........................do you have a different name at night:D
 
Hi my name is Laurie. I'm 51 and female. I was only diagnosed as Type 2 a couple of days ago. I'm still trying to get my head around everything. I'm so confused and wondering how I am going to cope.
 
It's a lot to take in when you have to rethink how you eat and what you eat. I'm trying the low carb high fat diet, it sounds so wrong but after reading about others results here on the forum I'm giving it a go . Four days in and my levels are a lot better. I hope you settle soon , there's great links here well worth a read .
 
I've been reading some of them. I'm seeing my diabetic nurse in a week for the first time. I haven't got a monitor at the moment. I'm going to ask if I could have one as I think it would help me.
 
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