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<blockquote data-quote="willmax" data-source="post: 1573067" data-attributes="member: 157106"><p>Hello everybody,</p><p></p><p>I am a type 1 diabetic who was diagnosed in 1950. So have had diabetes for 67 years and throughout that time seen major changes in the types of treatment and therapy exercised within the NHS. Most of these have basically to mine and other diabetics advantage. I still have my sight with only very minor diabetic retinopathy. But I have had the lenses of both eyes replaced by means of cataract operations. Until the beginning of this year I have managed to maintain good health. I passed through junior and senior school, went to university in 1968, graduated with a B.Sc (Hons) in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1975. I then travelled to Jamaica to lecture at the University of the West Indies. I returned to the UK in 1979 being supported by a Commonwealth Universities Repatriation Fellowship at my alma mater. I then moved to St George's Hospital Medical School in Tooting, London in 1980 as a post doctoral research fellow. There I met my wife. In 1983 we married and moved to Glasgow Medical School at which I was appointed Lecturer in Human Anatomy. I made a couple of strong research links in Glasgow and travelled to present at scientific conferences in Europe, the east and west coasts of USA, in Japan and Australia. My diabetes did not prevent me doing these trips but I had to be extra conscientious not to have any hypoglycaemic episodes; only failing twice, once in Vienna and once between Japan and Hong Kong. I retired from university life in 2013. The only major complication that I have experienced from diabetes is development of cardiac failure associated with a dilated and weakened left ventricle of my heart. I have two adult sons neither of which has diabetes. But my elder son does suffer from coeliac disease which, as you all know, is linked to genetic abnormalities within the HLA gene complex also associated with type 1 diabetes. I attribute my health and longevity to the conscientious care that my father encouraged me to take of my condition, and, possibly, a generous portion of luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="willmax, post: 1573067, member: 157106"] Hello everybody, I am a type 1 diabetic who was diagnosed in 1950. So have had diabetes for 67 years and throughout that time seen major changes in the types of treatment and therapy exercised within the NHS. Most of these have basically to mine and other diabetics advantage. I still have my sight with only very minor diabetic retinopathy. But I have had the lenses of both eyes replaced by means of cataract operations. Until the beginning of this year I have managed to maintain good health. I passed through junior and senior school, went to university in 1968, graduated with a B.Sc (Hons) in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1975. I then travelled to Jamaica to lecture at the University of the West Indies. I returned to the UK in 1979 being supported by a Commonwealth Universities Repatriation Fellowship at my alma mater. I then moved to St George's Hospital Medical School in Tooting, London in 1980 as a post doctoral research fellow. There I met my wife. In 1983 we married and moved to Glasgow Medical School at which I was appointed Lecturer in Human Anatomy. I made a couple of strong research links in Glasgow and travelled to present at scientific conferences in Europe, the east and west coasts of USA, in Japan and Australia. My diabetes did not prevent me doing these trips but I had to be extra conscientious not to have any hypoglycaemic episodes; only failing twice, once in Vienna and once between Japan and Hong Kong. I retired from university life in 2013. The only major complication that I have experienced from diabetes is development of cardiac failure associated with a dilated and weakened left ventricle of my heart. I have two adult sons neither of which has diabetes. But my elder son does suffer from coeliac disease which, as you all know, is linked to genetic abnormalities within the HLA gene complex also associated with type 1 diabetes. I attribute my health and longevity to the conscientious care that my father encouraged me to take of my condition, and, possibly, a generous portion of luck! [/QUOTE]
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