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<blockquote data-quote="QPR4Me" data-source="post: 1848794" data-attributes="member: 132584"><p>When I was diagnosed as a T2, despite never having been overweight, it took me an age to find out that T1 and T2 was rampant throughout my family history.</p><p>My family are Irish, as am I. The older ones from the countryside areas, where parish priests controlled every part of daily life, seemed to regard Diabetes as a curse for sins that was visited upon families. Such backward thinking drove me to despair. I made it clear to those that knew me, that I was Diabetic, that it was inherited and that there was nothing that I could do to prevent it. It, for me, was important to do so. They, and all my friends etc, needed to know in case I suffered a hypo.</p><p>These days, I volunteer for drugs trials etc, so that there can be a hope that the genetic links that are scattered throughout my family can be identified and dealt with before this condition could affect my daughters or, at the very least, make their lives better should they be affected by either T1 or T2 Diabetes. </p><p>QPR4Me</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QPR4Me, post: 1848794, member: 132584"] When I was diagnosed as a T2, despite never having been overweight, it took me an age to find out that T1 and T2 was rampant throughout my family history. My family are Irish, as am I. The older ones from the countryside areas, where parish priests controlled every part of daily life, seemed to regard Diabetes as a curse for sins that was visited upon families. Such backward thinking drove me to despair. I made it clear to those that knew me, that I was Diabetic, that it was inherited and that there was nothing that I could do to prevent it. It, for me, was important to do so. They, and all my friends etc, needed to know in case I suffered a hypo. These days, I volunteer for drugs trials etc, so that there can be a hope that the genetic links that are scattered throughout my family can be identified and dealt with before this condition could affect my daughters or, at the very least, make their lives better should they be affected by either T1 or T2 Diabetes. QPR4Me [/QUOTE]
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