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<blockquote data-quote="Gary_Gower" data-source="post: 1848560" data-attributes="member: 216916"><p>Well firstly an apology. I am going to sound bitter and twisted and I probably am. I regret telling anyone - because you can never 'untell' someone. I bitterly regret telling anyone.</p><p></p><p>Initially I told my wife and swore her to secrecy. I never told my mother and am grateful she went to the grave without that worry on her. I never told another sole. Then four years ago I had a blow up and ended up in hospital with sepsis. I then told a few people. Close friends, my children, but still not my brothers. One or two work colleagues too, esp as I was taking insulin.</p><p></p><p>I was amused by the puritanical comment. My wife thinks I should be ashamed to tell anyone and believes it's all my own fault. It may well be my fault but would you say that to a smoker with lung cancer ? As for the rest, all I experience is ignorance. "Are you allowed to eat that?" "Was it because you ate too much sugar?" "Do you have to have special shoes ?" "Are you allowed to drive?" The list goes on....such pitiful ignorance that I regret telling them. </p><p></p><p>I never told anyone about my ingrown toenail, the cyst on my back, tennis elbow, or any other illness, ailment or condition. Wish I'd related diabetes the same way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gary_Gower, post: 1848560, member: 216916"] Well firstly an apology. I am going to sound bitter and twisted and I probably am. I regret telling anyone - because you can never 'untell' someone. I bitterly regret telling anyone. Initially I told my wife and swore her to secrecy. I never told my mother and am grateful she went to the grave without that worry on her. I never told another sole. Then four years ago I had a blow up and ended up in hospital with sepsis. I then told a few people. Close friends, my children, but still not my brothers. One or two work colleagues too, esp as I was taking insulin. I was amused by the puritanical comment. My wife thinks I should be ashamed to tell anyone and believes it's all my own fault. It may well be my fault but would you say that to a smoker with lung cancer ? As for the rest, all I experience is ignorance. "Are you allowed to eat that?" "Was it because you ate too much sugar?" "Do you have to have special shoes ?" "Are you allowed to drive?" The list goes on....such pitiful ignorance that I regret telling them. I never told anyone about my ingrown toenail, the cyst on my back, tennis elbow, or any other illness, ailment or condition. Wish I'd related diabetes the same way. [/QUOTE]
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