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When The Penny Dropped For You?

Right from the start. My dad (non-d) was on dialysis in the 80s so as a child I had met plenty of diabetics with kidney failure/amputations/gangrene/blindness. The whole thing was terrifying.
 
Never did the orange thing. Was down to, but DSN at hospital cancelled my GP appointment and insisted that I go and see her instead. First ever injection was a strange scenario. After much discussion about things diabetes related we got down to INJECTION TIME. DSN showed me how to load insulin and everything and then quite out of the blue she hitched her skirt up and jabbed herself albeit with an empty syringe right there and then , I was gob smacked to say the least . Completely took away all the fear I had at the time.
 

I wouldn't tell the wife about that! Nurses hitching up skirts, best not discussed with significant others....
 

Dammit I never get nurses like that. What an absolute legend of a nurse, though
 
Hi @DiabeticDadUK . Absolute legend. I was very lucky, diagnosed 1991 at a time when research was a big thing at the Royal Infirmary. Got to spend a good 5 hrs or so on a one to one lesson in diabetes.
Also worth mentioning that after the skirt lift I had to drop my jeans and inject into my thigh, we must have looked a right pair.
 

There is a Carry On script in there somewhere. Carry On Diabetics ? How was your review last week at the General?
 
I guess luckily for me I was diagnosed at 4. I don't remember not doing injections, having hypos at school and university, drinking too much.

The penny probably dropped when I was having massive eye problems - got a grip and try to be tight now. Husband left and i am stronger alone.

Drive a sports car now - my treat for managing my diabetes and saving my sight. It's my reminder that if I wobble too much or go in denial I won't be able to drive it.
 
Scott-C said:
If we tried to kick your ar**, your dog in the avatar pic would go for our throats!
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I doubt it ... my poor Sadie (pictured) went to Rainbow Bridge in January :-( I do however have another retriever now, young Bosley. At the very most he'd lick you to death!
 
It's strange because I thought once I'd been confirmed as LADA (I'd been in LADA limbo for 4 years) I would be better with my diet than I usually am. Oddly enough I think I've been worse. I've been reading the posts on this site for the last 3 years, reading up on LADA and I pretty much know what to expect. I feel I'm well informed. I went to a new GP the other day and asked why my endo said I should keep my BS under 5 before meals (which I am finding pretty much impossible with LCHF). He was very surprised and said that is more appropriate for a 16 year old, not someone my age. I talked about LADA, diabetes and blood sugars a bit and he asked me what I did for a living ... thought I must have worked in the medical field given my knowledge. I have this forum to thank for that. I am currently wading through Bernstein's Diabetes Solution and Think Like a Pancreas. I'm probably a long way off insulin but hey, it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

I think the rot will really set in and the penny will drop when I start to get some high numbers on my metre. Anyhoots, I'll come back to this post and let you all know
 
Lesleywo said:
I doubt it ... my poor Sadie (pictured) went to Rainbow Bridge in January :-( I do however have another retriever now, young Bosley. At the very most he'd lick you to death!
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Oh, such a shame for Sadie, but I'm sure Bosley will chase those sticks!

I was sitting in my pooch-friendly local pub a couple of months ago, and one of these little critters, a jackahuahua, came up and planted itself quite happily on my foot. My mum told me always show the back of your hand to it's nose so the dog can sniff it so it "knows" you before you start clapping it. Maybe it's an old wives tale, but I always do that, and this wee one then curled up on my foot, and looked up as if to say, I'm happy here!



Just too cute, I was half tempted to run off with it!

Mind you, it was a curious wee thing, and immediately ran off to do exactly the same thing with the next customer who came in! I'll get a dog one of these days....

I wonder sometimes about the number of people who use dog pic avatars. I've not had any major league mind-melting hypos for a long time now, fingers crossed, but the next time I have one, I'll probably end up looking at this site and wondering, how do these dogs type, how can they inject without having thumbs?
 
DiabeticDadUK said:
There is a Carry On script in there somewhere. Carry On Diabetics ? How was your review last week at the General?
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Definitely a missed carry on film in there somewhere.
"That's was only a little prick doctor"
" ooo errr Nurse Sugar Lumps"

Review went fine, thank you for asking.
Hope you had a good one as well.
 
I was getting in a lot of trouble in school for about a year after being diagnosed and it was only once i decided to switch schools for a fresh start that i realised how serious it was. It's almost 2 years since diagnosis (may 15th) and I've only started talking about it comfortably a few months ago. Now I've got good control and am going on to a pump tomorrow.
 
I am in Canada. When I was diagnosed 2 years ago the diabetic educator told me to apply for the disability tax credit. Read the form about how insulin is a life sustaining treatment and covered under it, had my family doctor fill out the forms with support from the diabetic clinic and sent them off.... Revenue Canada requested more info from the doctor... then a few months later I received my letter from Revenue Canada confirming I qualified for the disability tax credit to 5 years when I had to do a reassessment.

That was when it hit me... I need insulin to live and that the government agrees that I am "disabled"
 
52 tbh when cancer also struck.

Till theen I really just lived and got on with injecting, pump, mdi etc.. cancer really knocked the hell out of me. Not the diabetes.
 
Although, the last 6 months at another hospital and seeing horrendous amounts of amputees has really emphasised the **** to me. I was shown two people in a ward on my diagnosis 30+ years ago. Seeing me and 9 other patients... me ok, 8 others all with horrendous leg probs and 1 much younger lady with prolific complications has again scared the heck out of me...

In 30 years at hospitals I have never been at repeated appointments with so many people with severe leg problems.... and this is the specialist diabetes unit, not attending a prosthetic unit etc.
 

It makes me wonder if this is poor healthcare advice and assistance, resulting in complications or poor control by the diabetics. If diabetes is on the increase, as widely reported then complications will only rise in number. Regardless of the reason, more needs to be done for diabetics in this country.
 

I'm kind of a big dog person but that dog is very cute
 
DiabeticDadUK said:
I remember that too. They gave me an orange and an empty syringe and some water. "Here! practice injecting with that"
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I too was told to practise on an orange and funnily enough it was around easter time when diagnosed and as aged just 6 i still remember being told i couldn't eat my easter eggs......very important aged 6.
I'm 48 now and sooner have a bag of crisps!

Tony
 
I have been diagnosed almost 8 months. I had to spend a week in hospital when diagnosed. I am 17, and came to terms with it pretty soon after diagnosis. I had my first few injections done by a nurse, then my mum and then my dad. After a couple of days i was confident but was unable to go home as i had very low potassium levels. I went to hospital in severe DKA, about 5 days max away from a coma. Very high ketones of about 4, and glucose level was 19, but I hadn't eaten in days.
 
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