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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 580191" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>Booking a holiday, or a sick mote would be the best way to get paid.</p><p></p><p>The hospital and or his gp should also be offering him some sort of counselling therapy to help him come to terms with injecting regularly. That after all is what makes us T1's different to everyone else. Yes, we have to take a guestimate or factual amount of carbs in food, (seconds, and after a while you don't sctually realise you are doing it)but T1's are able to eat anything if we have injection quantitys right.</p><p></p><p>However, somebody whether its family, hospital or his friends need to say directly to him that people live 50 years + with diabetes, many do not have complications (like me 30+ years). We work, holiday and party same as him, but we have accepted injections as part of our lives.</p><p></p><p>It sounds as if he could do to meet a type 1 that has lived, still living and enjoying life. Somebody that can help him see that his life does not have to be miserable. Does your hospital run a "buddy" system so that he could meet a type 1 that is happy and content. There are many T1's that have been with his thoughts... </p><p></p><p>I too had similar thoughts. I never thought I would get to 50. Well here I am. This was because I was told I HAD to look after myself because my life would be shortened otherwise and I WOULD get complications. I still had non angel times... So I appreciate how he feels.. But I am assuming that his levels since diagnosis haven't ever been too good.. Which makes me think that he could really do to talk to a type 1 that can change his views. Some hospitals have Patients that don't mind talking to someone that is struggling...may be worthwhile talking to dsn to see if they have a Patient like this. Not to lecture or give medical advice, just somebody that can tell him that life can still be **** good.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 580191, member: 17713"] Booking a holiday, or a sick mote would be the best way to get paid. The hospital and or his gp should also be offering him some sort of counselling therapy to help him come to terms with injecting regularly. That after all is what makes us T1's different to everyone else. Yes, we have to take a guestimate or factual amount of carbs in food, (seconds, and after a while you don't sctually realise you are doing it)but T1's are able to eat anything if we have injection quantitys right. However, somebody whether its family, hospital or his friends need to say directly to him that people live 50 years + with diabetes, many do not have complications (like me 30+ years). We work, holiday and party same as him, but we have accepted injections as part of our lives. It sounds as if he could do to meet a type 1 that has lived, still living and enjoying life. Somebody that can help him see that his life does not have to be miserable. Does your hospital run a "buddy" system so that he could meet a type 1 that is happy and content. There are many T1's that have been with his thoughts... I too had similar thoughts. I never thought I would get to 50. Well here I am. This was because I was told I HAD to look after myself because my life would be shortened otherwise and I WOULD get complications. I still had non angel times... So I appreciate how he feels.. But I am assuming that his levels since diagnosis haven't ever been too good.. Which makes me think that he could really do to talk to a type 1 that can change his views. Some hospitals have Patients that don't mind talking to someone that is struggling...may be worthwhile talking to dsn to see if they have a Patient like this. Not to lecture or give medical advice, just somebody that can tell him that life can still be **** good. Sent from the [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig]Diabetes Forum App[/url] [/QUOTE]
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