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<blockquote data-quote="JenniferW" data-source="post: 991183" data-attributes="member: 191472"><p>Although I didn't exactly feel supported by the nurse who gave me my blood test results and T2 diagnosis, with little specific advice of any sort, one thing she did tell me to do was contact the providers of the local X-PERT course. I didn't get on that for months after the diagnosis, but it turned out to be excellent.</p><p></p><p>It gave me immediate contact with a group of people who were also T2, a complete mixture, too. We definitely weren't all overweight and unfit! There was the serious input, but also lots of the teaching was in the form of small group activities which were more like party games at times, which got us helping each other, and wasn't what any of us expected. </p><p></p><p>The person who presented the sessions was superb, and by the end, you could see how it was designed to include everyone, regardless of how much they really understood things at the beginning. She did end up saying we were one of her best-ever groups as regards helpfulness, friendliness, participation, etc, but it made me think what the X-PERT people are doing is a pretty good model of how to get everyone taking responsibility for managing their own condition, learning at a speed you could cope with, making changes you could sustain, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JenniferW, post: 991183, member: 191472"] Although I didn't exactly feel supported by the nurse who gave me my blood test results and T2 diagnosis, with little specific advice of any sort, one thing she did tell me to do was contact the providers of the local X-PERT course. I didn't get on that for months after the diagnosis, but it turned out to be excellent. It gave me immediate contact with a group of people who were also T2, a complete mixture, too. We definitely weren't all overweight and unfit! There was the serious input, but also lots of the teaching was in the form of small group activities which were more like party games at times, which got us helping each other, and wasn't what any of us expected. The person who presented the sessions was superb, and by the end, you could see how it was designed to include everyone, regardless of how much they really understood things at the beginning. She did end up saying we were one of her best-ever groups as regards helpfulness, friendliness, participation, etc, but it made me think what the X-PERT people are doing is a pretty good model of how to get everyone taking responsibility for managing their own condition, learning at a speed you could cope with, making changes you could sustain, etc. [/QUOTE]
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