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<blockquote data-quote="mobrien" data-source="post: 123748" data-attributes="member: 24807"><p>I have only been diagnosed since 2nd Dec 2009 I even know the time. At the time my appointment with the DSN went something like "come in, sit down" followed the instructions I was then told "Well I can confirm you are diabetic how do you feel about that?" After I took a deep breath I told her I knew nothing of the disorder and knew nobody with it, she gave me the normal spiel and asked if I would like to come back a few weeks later to discuss it further and that I should bring my wife. So in we trot a few weeks later and the DSN starts to explain the diabetes thing again only this time I am able to grasp the information she gives me. We book to go on a DESMOND course and go through it. Because I am a systems engineer I hook up to the net and get as much info as I can knowledge is power and all that and go on the DESMOND quite happy in the knowledge this thing of ours will not get me down. DESMOND was good it scares the life out of you and mad me think this is a more serious disorder than I first suspected so I put my mind to doing things right in 9 weeks lost 2 stone (good for me) Eating only 3 times a day my snacking has stopped etc and I have my Blood sugar down to 6.5.</p><p></p><p>Now heres my catch whenever I try to talk about the subject with the wife she keeps saying "look you only have diabetes is not going to kill you" but I kinda get the picture that its a degrenerative disorder and if I do not take care one of its wonderful side effects will get me. Anyone know how I can convince her I am seriously worried about all aspects of the disorder and being 54, overweight (still) high BP (160/110), High Cholesterol (7.8) heart attack/stroke waiting to happen here and just to top it of I tend to suffer kidney stones (they really hurt)</p><p></p><p>Any ideas</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mobrien, post: 123748, member: 24807"] I have only been diagnosed since 2nd Dec 2009 I even know the time. At the time my appointment with the DSN went something like "come in, sit down" followed the instructions I was then told "Well I can confirm you are diabetic how do you feel about that?" After I took a deep breath I told her I knew nothing of the disorder and knew nobody with it, she gave me the normal spiel and asked if I would like to come back a few weeks later to discuss it further and that I should bring my wife. So in we trot a few weeks later and the DSN starts to explain the diabetes thing again only this time I am able to grasp the information she gives me. We book to go on a DESMOND course and go through it. Because I am a systems engineer I hook up to the net and get as much info as I can knowledge is power and all that and go on the DESMOND quite happy in the knowledge this thing of ours will not get me down. DESMOND was good it scares the life out of you and mad me think this is a more serious disorder than I first suspected so I put my mind to doing things right in 9 weeks lost 2 stone (good for me) Eating only 3 times a day my snacking has stopped etc and I have my Blood sugar down to 6.5. Now heres my catch whenever I try to talk about the subject with the wife she keeps saying "look you only have diabetes is not going to kill you" but I kinda get the picture that its a degrenerative disorder and if I do not take care one of its wonderful side effects will get me. Anyone know how I can convince her I am seriously worried about all aspects of the disorder and being 54, overweight (still) high BP (160/110), High Cholesterol (7.8) heart attack/stroke waiting to happen here and just to top it of I tend to suffer kidney stones (they really hurt) Any ideas [/QUOTE]
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