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<blockquote data-quote="viviennem" data-source="post: 181715" data-attributes="member: 31282"><p>Hi Paul</p><p></p><p>I have a Type 1 friend who is now nearly 90, after becoming diabetic in her early 40s. She has a better social life than I have, lives alone and copes very well.</p><p></p><p>Also Dr Richard Bernstein, author of the 'Diabetes Solution' book, became Type 1 at age 11 and I believe is in his 70s now and doing well.</p><p></p><p>Have you discussed this with your pension company? I took mine pre-diabetes, unfortunately, but seem to remember that diabetics get a larger pension from their 'pot' because they are statistically likely to die earlier! Just make sure they don't put a time-limit on it (eg stop paying at 80!).</p><p></p><p>If you're otherwise generally healthy and you are well-controlled, I don't see why you shouldn't have some good years of happy and active retirement, doing exactly what you want. How awful if you get to 90 and haven't done it all!</p><p></p><p>Don't forget the statistics take into account all those Type 1s who have died over the past 2 or 3 decades, when treatment wasn't as good and control wasn't as "easy". Having said that, my mother had a Type 1 friend (a contemporary of my gran) who died in her 80s in the late 1960s. Admittedly Charlotte was blind, but I don't know whether that was retinopathy or some other cause. I think she was Type 1; she certainly injected insulin. If you think how well things have come on since then, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't beat the statistics. All the people like the friend I first mentioned haven't become statistics yet</p><p></p><p>Keep in touch from the Med.!</p><p></p><p>Make your plans, put your affairs in order, and then enjoy every minute as it comes along. After all a meteorite might drop on your head tomorrow - and that's not a complication of diabetes!</p><p></p><p>Viv <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="viviennem, post: 181715, member: 31282"] Hi Paul I have a Type 1 friend who is now nearly 90, after becoming diabetic in her early 40s. She has a better social life than I have, lives alone and copes very well. Also Dr Richard Bernstein, author of the 'Diabetes Solution' book, became Type 1 at age 11 and I believe is in his 70s now and doing well. Have you discussed this with your pension company? I took mine pre-diabetes, unfortunately, but seem to remember that diabetics get a larger pension from their 'pot' because they are statistically likely to die earlier! Just make sure they don't put a time-limit on it (eg stop paying at 80!). If you're otherwise generally healthy and you are well-controlled, I don't see why you shouldn't have some good years of happy and active retirement, doing exactly what you want. How awful if you get to 90 and haven't done it all! Don't forget the statistics take into account all those Type 1s who have died over the past 2 or 3 decades, when treatment wasn't as good and control wasn't as "easy". Having said that, my mother had a Type 1 friend (a contemporary of my gran) who died in her 80s in the late 1960s. Admittedly Charlotte was blind, but I don't know whether that was retinopathy or some other cause. I think she was Type 1; she certainly injected insulin. If you think how well things have come on since then, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't beat the statistics. All the people like the friend I first mentioned haven't become statistics yet Keep in touch from the Med.! Make your plans, put your affairs in order, and then enjoy every minute as it comes along. After all a meteorite might drop on your head tomorrow - and that's not a complication of diabetes! Viv :D [/QUOTE]
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