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Sad Tale, Salutary Lesson

Poor young lass....

No doubt she wont be the only one out there across the UK that will be in this predicament....
 
That poor family.
 
The story is tragic and waste of a life.
I also read of a 18 year old in USA who died because he was rationing his insulin. He died 3 days before his next month's insulin supply was due.
He had just moved off his mother's health insurance and despite having a full time job could not afford health insurance. It was costing him USD 1300 for insulin per week. His mother said that financially he would have been worse off with health insurance.
 
kitedoc said:
The story is tragic and waste of a life.
I also read of a 18 year old in USA who died because he was rationing his insulin. He died 3 days before his next month's insulin supply was due.
He had just moved off his mother's health insurance and despite having a full time job could not afford health insurance. It was costing him USD 1300 for insulin per week. His mother said that financially he would have been worse off with health insurance.
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Heartbreaking.
 
kitedoc said:
The story is tragic and waste of a life.
I also read of a 18 year old in USA who died because he was rationing his insulin. He died 3 days before his next month's insulin supply was due.
He had just moved off his mother's health insurance and despite having a full time job could not afford health insurance. It was costing him USD 1300 for insulin per week. His mother said that financially he would have been worse off with health insurance.
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I don't understand how diabetics are allowed to go without insulin over in the states....
 
More questions than answers.

"A 20-year-old woman who refused to follow medical advice about her diabetes saying she 'didn't do needles' has died after suffering a suspected diabetic coma."

"For a girl covered in tattoos and piercings, she hated needles."

Difficult to understand what seems like a contradiction, even though I know that with my own father I can't even say "needle", but then he wouldn't be doing tatoos or piercing, very strange.

" , , , , , she had three life-threatening DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis) attacks."

You'd like to think that somebody would have realised what was going on. Her parents were obviously close enough to get her to go for a diabetes test in the first place. In the 310 days between diagnosis and death did nobody think "This young lady needs psychiatric help". Did nobody explain to her the seriousness of her condition and the seriousness of DKA?

Then for the mother to take her 5 year old sister and say "you are not leaving us to sit with your little sister to tell her that her best friend is no longer here." This woman was obviously not listening.

Very sad for her little sister and her parents.
 
and that the girl went from a size 22 to a size 10, and wanted to stay thin suggests underlying body and food issues which were not addressed either.


DavidGrahamJones said:
Then for the mother to take her 5 year old sister and say "you are not leaving us to sit with your little sister to tell her that her best friend is no longer here." This woman was obviously not listening.
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I dont understand that bit?
 
lucylocket61 said:
I dont understand that bit?
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I'm suggesting that if my mum had brought my 5 year old brother/sister to my hospital bed saying she didn't want to break the news of my death to him/her, I'd do something about not dying. I've had some very dark thoughts in my lifetime and it was only thinking about my mum, dad, brothers and sister that stopped me doing anything stupid. Maybe not my sister so much. LOL
 
lucylocket61 said:
and that the girl went from a size 22 to a size 10, and wanted to stay thin suggests underlying body and food issues which were not addressed either.
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Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric conditions ( apparently substance abuse sufferers are slightly worse) and even if you do get treatment for it, the cycle of treatment, relapse, treatment is very hard to break. Adding insulin to the mix just makes a bad situation worse. Very very sad.
 
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