Resurgam
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- Type of diabetes
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As a child and teenager I was very robust and hardly ever unwell.
Just before I was 19 years old I married a man who would not be told to remove the washing up bowl from the kitchen sink (the only sink we had), to wash his hands after using the outside toilet. He would also use the tea towel to wipe his hands, the floor, any surface or item, indiscriminately along with the hand towel. He seemed to have no concept of hygiene.
Soon after the wedding I had a long series of infections and developed stomach ulcers, found I was always tired, had a series of unexplained collapses which were much like hypos.
When we moved from the student flat to a a house things got better, but I told him to stay out of the kitchen and I acquired an old fashioned Burco boiler and used to change all the towels and tea towels, flannels etc. every day, then they were boiled up and hung outside to dry. I would still get infections from time to times, but they stopped when he went away to work, then occurred when he came home, so it was fairly evident that he was still not washing properly.
We divorced eventually - but I think that the multitude of infections could have had some effect.
Just before I was 19 years old I married a man who would not be told to remove the washing up bowl from the kitchen sink (the only sink we had), to wash his hands after using the outside toilet. He would also use the tea towel to wipe his hands, the floor, any surface or item, indiscriminately along with the hand towel. He seemed to have no concept of hygiene.
Soon after the wedding I had a long series of infections and developed stomach ulcers, found I was always tired, had a series of unexplained collapses which were much like hypos.
When we moved from the student flat to a a house things got better, but I told him to stay out of the kitchen and I acquired an old fashioned Burco boiler and used to change all the towels and tea towels, flannels etc. every day, then they were boiled up and hung outside to dry. I would still get infections from time to times, but they stopped when he went away to work, then occurred when he came home, so it was fairly evident that he was still not washing properly.
We divorced eventually - but I think that the multitude of infections could have had some effect.