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Diabetics
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GinN | Report | 1 Dec 2012 21:50 |
I was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic two years ago, and since a year ago take a Metformin tablet once a day. It is under control, and I have no problems. So, I never feel the need to broadcast the fact, though do decline most desserts. I love a drink, but am careful to avoid sweeter ones. |
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Carol 430181 | Report | 1 Dec 2012 21:33 |
I am diabetic type 2 but on insulin for last 13 yrs after having a heart attack.on Friday 13th. Friends and family know and leave me alone to get on with it, I would never tell strangers. |
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Huia | Report | 1 Dec 2012 21:30 |
Tec, dont let her drink vodka. A kiwi diabetic recently had some vodka and it reacted with his medication to poison him. He was rushed to hospital where the doc realised what the problem was and went out and bought an expensive bottle of whisky, returned to the hospital and gave it intravenously to the patient and saved his life! Apparently it counteracted what the vodka had done, something about one producing ethane and the other producing methane, if I remember the report correctly. |
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Tecwyn | Report | 1 Dec 2012 21:20 |
My OH has been Type 1 insulin dependant diabetic for over 20 years. I have never heard her introduce herself in this way. |
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Robert | Report | 1 Dec 2012 20:14 |
My name is Bob |
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Iris | Report | 1 Dec 2012 19:27 |
Sharron |
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DazedConfused | Report | 29 Nov 2012 12:46 |
I worked wtih a lad who was diabetic and he would regularly have episodes. We would be aware something was wrong. One of us would indicate to start calling the ambulance and the rest of us would get him lying on the floor, get hime comfortable and then give him a sip from a bottle of lucozade which we kept in the office for these occassions. By which time the ambulance would have either arrived or be due shortly and he was safe. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 29 Nov 2012 12:05 |
maybe its because at the diabetic clinic its drumed into diabetics heads |
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Island | Report | 29 Nov 2012 11:09 |
In that case.......Maybe Harold was angling for an invitation to dinner :-S |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 29 Nov 2012 11:03 |
My OH is newly diagnosed as borderline diabetic, he does not mention it to strangers, however, he has done so to people we know when they wonder why he is now eating smaller portions and saying NO THANK YOU to his beloved puddings. |
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Allan | Report | 29 Nov 2012 11:00 |
lol Kay, prices in WA have risen out of all proportion to everywhere else. |
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Kay???? | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:51 |
Its so Allan, |
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Allan | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:16 |
lol Kay...Precisely, and you expressed it so much better than I did :-) |
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Kay???? | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:12 |
It stops people putting presure on you to eat things ,,,,,,,, |
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Allan | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:11 |
Because they do, Sharron. |
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Sharron | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:05 |
But it is not their business. Why should people be so rude as to question what you eat or drink? |
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LollyWithSprinklez | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:05 |
Don't know the answer to that as I have never come across that kind of introduction |
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Allan | Report | 29 Nov 2012 10:00 |
Hi Sharron |
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Sharron | Report | 29 Nov 2012 09:45 |
Please don't think this is sniping because truly,it is not.I really want to understand why but just about every diabetic I have ever met has thought to mention it to me.One man I met through my job, he was the chairman of a social club and I had never met him before and will probably never do so again, introduced himself by shaking my hand and saying"Hello,I am Harold and I am a diabetic." |