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<blockquote data-quote="hurf0rd" data-source="post: 1409495" data-attributes="member: 385058"><p>Oh Dawn, it must be very difficult having to cope with this. I had a stroke about a year ago, it makes you very self-centred (as I'm sure anything so serious would), and it's only really recently that I've appreciated what my wife must have gone through / be going through during this process. Big hugs.</p><p></p><p>For your husband, I'm afraid I have less sympathy. You see, possibly the reason that I had my stroke was by neglecting my sugar. Whilst the consultant was not 100% sure, one thing that was more clear-cut was the <a href="http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/diabetic-macular-oedema.pdf" target="_blank">decrease in the quality of my vision </a>in the last couple of years, which was undoubtedly caused by diabetes. My vision seems to have improved a little now, but the treatment that I had to have was a course of injections<em> directly into my eye</em>. So, you know, if we're talking about a sliding scale, which would your husband prefer less? A prick of his finger, a needle in his arm every now and again, or the treatment I went through? It is not as if anybody likes needles, but (especially if he's peeing sugar) he has to recognise the greater good.</p><p></p><p>The stroke, btw, has left me with a left-sided weakness, including not being able to use my arm at all (and I used to be left-handed). If it was caused by diabetes.....well, all I can say is that I wish I'd taken it seriously a bit sooner. I am 49 years old. It's really up to your husband to form his own opinion, but a lot of people have told me that I'm too young to be going through all of this nonsense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hurf0rd, post: 1409495, member: 385058"] Oh Dawn, it must be very difficult having to cope with this. I had a stroke about a year ago, it makes you very self-centred (as I'm sure anything so serious would), and it's only really recently that I've appreciated what my wife must have gone through / be going through during this process. Big hugs. For your husband, I'm afraid I have less sympathy. You see, possibly the reason that I had my stroke was by neglecting my sugar. Whilst the consultant was not 100% sure, one thing that was more clear-cut was the [URL='http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/diabetic-macular-oedema.pdf']decrease in the quality of my vision [/URL]in the last couple of years, which was undoubtedly caused by diabetes. My vision seems to have improved a little now, but the treatment that I had to have was a course of injections[I] directly into my eye[/I]. So, you know, if we're talking about a sliding scale, which would your husband prefer less? A prick of his finger, a needle in his arm every now and again, or the treatment I went through? It is not as if anybody likes needles, but (especially if he's peeing sugar) he has to recognise the greater good. The stroke, btw, has left me with a left-sided weakness, including not being able to use my arm at all (and I used to be left-handed). If it was caused by diabetes.....well, all I can say is that I wish I'd taken it seriously a bit sooner. I am 49 years old. It's really up to your husband to form his own opinion, but a lot of people have told me that I'm too young to be going through all of this nonsense. [/QUOTE]
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