mine
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i told my wife to let me go if i am down with troublesome illness when i am in 70s. no point sucking the blood of your children with medical bills.
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looking for advise please
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notned
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You've a lot to learn.. It's actually the other way around.
mine
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hope so. medical fees are high
notned
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Ah, you're 'elsewhere'
Over here most things are free until you need nursing homes. They are expensive. They take everything you've put by, plus your house down to just £20,000. That is, if the last of us (my wife or I) need a nursing home for more than months, the kids get zilch split between them.
In any case 70 is still a spring chicken. You work until you're 66, 7 or 8 (it's going up) - who wants to be dead two years later? That was for our father's generation...
notned
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Sorry runner (#18) my computer wouldn't boot this lunchtime, so I'm all over.
The meeting with the liver specialist on 28th is to prepare for a biopsy - after that we may know the cause. They can't put it down to booze (not unless a dry sherry on Christmas day counts
) so I'm expecting they will put it down to fatty liver. It is possible they may attribute it to medications prescribed over the past 2 decades - perhaps not..With the appointment letter they sent me an invitation to join the tissue bank. Wondering when I can make a withdrawal.....
J.
mine
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its just another perspective.
notned
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Not scary 'mine'.. You just gotta fight..
I'd never had a day's illness in my adult life until August 1989 when I got a terrible pain from my right hip right down to the sole of my foot. A year later some of the country's best spinal people told me I'd be 80% reliant on a wheelchair for the rest of my natural.
The wheelchair and I parted company just 18 moths later - permanently. Darned device was the most uncomfortable and cold place I've ever been...
J.
mine
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have not given up. just hope i wont be a burden to the younger generation.
mine
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all the complication of diabetes are need care taker and financial assistance. if you dont have to pay for it, someone else would have to.
i have a friend who told me that parental love are unconditional and free. we as parent we provided all these unconditionally, but we to take care and educate the young takes a lot of effort, time and money.
i have a friend who told me that parental love are unconditional and free. we as parent we provided all these unconditionally, but we to take care and educate the young takes a lot of effort, time and money.
notned
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How true these words are, even today...
There comes a point when payback might just have to kick in. If you allow (even your own) children take with no give, then you are bringing up some really selfish kids. Mind you, looking around, perhaps that is precisely what we have done.
Anyway, who says diabetes is a life sentence - I might be over the hill but there are plenty of people around who have beat it.
Odd expression, 'over the hill' - why didn't I notice when I reached the top?
J.
lisa00769
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Hi jHi Lisa,
I was diagnosed type 2 a year last autumn - don't know exactly when 'cos I was in an induced coma due to double pneumonia - they woke me a couple of months before my 70th and I was already on insulin. I really could do with losing a couple of stones.
In August last year we were advised that my wife's kidney blood results had dropped - suddenly we were facing dialysis and whatnot. Obviously it knocked her for six and in Sept we started weekly trips to the hospital - with the shock of their revelations, the hassle of parking, food and the rest I just took my eye off the diabetes. I was aware my blood sugar was rising - but weighed against fistulas and a couple of rather stark choices on dialysis it seemed of little consequence.
BG kept rising, I increased insulin and it seemed to rise faster - I hit a peak on 12 November, bedtime BG 20.7. Just a couple of days before that I had increased my insulin to its highest level - 14 units morning, 18 evening. I had phone calls recalling pens (mine weren't affected, but it is un-nerving), I spoke to LifeScan (who made my meter) and they sent me a new meter, I tried stopping insulin altogether, cut out meals. I ran out of ideas. Yes, I know, I should have seen my specialist nurse - but there just wasn't time.
At the end of November it was time for the annual prescription review. I saw a new Doctor - she instructed me to drop two urine samples in the following morning and wait while she 'dipped' one of them. After a few minutes at reception there was a shout to the effect that all was OK. About 29 November the practice phoned to say that the sample sent away had indicated a bladder infection. On the 2 Dec my doctor prescribed Amoxicillin and 5 days later my BGs fell back to something like normal (for me anyway, daily av 7 - 8). A week or ten days later they started to rise again, so in early Feb I was given a different prescription - 'Trime..' something. It didn't work as noticeably as the amoxy, but it brought the BGs down.
So for all those months I thought it was me - it was actually recurrent bladder infections. My first HbA1c was 45 (Dec '12) my second was 49 (after winter vomiting May '13) was 49, my last one was 63 (2 Dec '13).
The last time we went to the hospital kidney unit (can't spell Nefrology
By 26 April my insulin dose had crept back to 32 (16 morn, 16 eve) - this horrified me but others tell me 'no big deal'. On 28 April I announced (to anybody listening) that I was fed up with the whole performance and things were going to change! I drank nothing but water all day - no food. The following day I ate normally - the day after that I fasted and largely thereafter.. Over the two weeks since 28 Apr my average insulin dose is a little below 8 (morning only) and never more than 10. BGs are daily av 6-7. If I could just crack the breakfast high they'd be less. I've lost a few pounds, nothing startling, but in the right direction.
It's a bit extreme though..
J.
PS sorry this is so long - I have edited a lot out - twice
My goodness that sounds horrendous and I have a cheek to winge.
I really hope things are better now x
mine
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i used to take this approach. society has changed. now people has less children. when it comes to children i think it has to be forward paying. they has to provide for the next generation. thats the fundamental thing to keep us going. people who did not have off spring is not paying back their parents.
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Hi there lisa00769,
Are your bloods getting back to a more 'normal' range now?
The suggestion that you may be going down the track of type 1 seemed possible after hearing your symptoms and how you were struggling. Great diet advice from runner2009.
Hope you're feeling more in control.
lisa00769
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Hi bebo
was worried about this new pill as not been on the market long.
I've been takung it for 2 days and my sugars are reading an average of 9-10 so its doing something yay!!!
I know not great but its a start.
also been sticking to runners advice re diet so that has probably helped also.
thankyou for asking xxx
was worried about this new pill as not been on the market long.
I've been takung it for 2 days and my sugars are reading an average of 9-10 so its doing something yay!!!
I know not great but its a start.
also been sticking to runners advice re diet so that has probably helped also.
thankyou for asking xxx
notned
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Hi Lisa,
Many thanks.. I missed your post because I'm all of a tizz with this flaming computer. It's an intelegent machine alright, it knows just when to cause maximum impact.
Just on the phone to number one son - he says I need a £7 lumpammer...
Sorry, that was a 7 lb lump hammer
J.
notned
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- Diabetes, cirrhosis, lymphoma, acronyms, green celery (because it's lazy), those computer programs that nag you night after night to download them and then, when you do, present reams of conditions and threats for you to accept before they'll run. DVDs that start with 5 minutes of threats - if I'd pirated it, then I'd surely leave those out.
Thanks Lisa.
Is July 69 your birth date? Number one's is May 69.
He has lived in Calgary since '92. The line is usually better than we get to our daughter, just 5 miles away. Today it was a bit foggy. Or perhaps it is his Canadian accent - mixed with the accent he picked up from Shoeburyness during his gap year (some sort of Cockney) it is a real doozy.
J.
Is July 69 your birth date? Number one's is May 69.
He has lived in Calgary since '92. The line is usually better than we get to our daughter, just 5 miles away. Today it was a bit foggy. Or perhaps it is his Canadian accent - mixed with the accent he picked up from Shoeburyness during his gap year (some sort of Cockney) it is a real doozy.
J.
