General Chat

John - it's a meeting house in Sedbergh.

Sylvia always says where her avatars are in the Researching box at the bottom.

Thankies John
I changed my Avitar again.
I know it's premature but changed it in advance of Diabetes Awareness week.

Dau No1 was diagnosed with Type1 in Jan of this year.
It has been a challenge for her (and us) especially because many people don't know the difference in types.
Working alongside an older generation who, although well meaning, think they can offer dietary advice and insist that she shouldn't be eating fruit or sweets.
They also make it quite clear that her diabetes is the result of a ( well recovered from) eating disorder.
She can't get through to them that:
Type 1 is an auto immune condition and is not connected to Anorexia.! <3

I think your avatar is great GlasgowLass and it's better to advertise well ahead of the event so more people are aware.

I'm sorry to hear about your daughters diabetes but pleased that she has overcome her eating disorder. Both are enormous challenges for her and the rest of the family.

Thank You Toots,
By an odd quirk, the eating disorder was indirectly caused by a different auto immune condition a few years back.
Whilst still at school, she developed hyper thyroidism.
It was the medication to treat this that caused a huge weight gain.
She eventually opted for rado active iodine to stop the thyroid working.
It took about a year for everything to settle down, and then decided to go on a health kick, lose the extra weight and get fit, active...and healthy.
Unfortunately the health kick worked so well that her ideas on a healthy diet became skewed.
She realised that she was unable to stop the weight loss.... asked for help and has never looked back.

Diabetes is close to my heart as a cause. I must have been very close to contracting it 10 years ago. Severe health scare and had to give up work for 18 months. Very deep depression and all my BP, cholestrol, blood sugars etc were at dangerous levels. Seem fine now - thanks for asking :-) ;-)

But younger brother died 4 years ago - and he had never taken any notice of doctors till he contracted diabetes about 3 years before he died aged 58. Death was a heart attack, but the fact that he took his tablets when he felt like it must have contributed :-( :-(

On a happier note, one of my gt gt grandfathers was a sheep farmer from Sedbergh called Lawrence LUPTON (born 1817 from memory). They were mainly Methodists, but I have often wondered if they may have been Quakers before that. So that lovely meeting house was probably very familiar to my ancestors :-) :-) :-)