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Permalink Reply by Anonymous Jim on February 2, 2011 at 5:35pm

T-1 is all over my family so I would say the reason I am T-1 is genetics. Some of my family has handled it well some haven't.

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Permalink Reply by Ressy on February 2, 2011 at 5:52pm

I"m not sure of the reason I was given this "gift", but I was given a few tools with my "gift" also. I love math and figures, cooking anything and everything from scratch and looking at data points to discover patterns. I have a degree in nursing and 20 years experience in handling health issues. My dh is a engineer who at times considers me his personal experiment and that is not as fun as it sounds..

The reason behind this "gift" I'll know when I stand before the Throne. Until then the reason is irrelevant. It is what it is.

I'll keep my "gift". The tool box is well worth it.

Ressy

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Permalink Reply by PatientX on February 2, 2011 at 5:58pm

I think it was Satan that led me to the path of this dreaded disease by putting all kinds of temptations in front of me, but it was the grace of God that brought me back from almost dying at the ICU.

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Permalink Reply by PatientX on February 2, 2011 at 8:24pm

For you, no part since Type 1 is totally different than Type 2.

Should of stated I am a type 2 diabetic and I have no issue accepting that I did live a very unhealthy lifestyle and by whatever cosmic means I tripped the wire that started my diabetes ride or just random dumb bad luck. Hence the commet that satan brought me to this junction in life. In Catholicism gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. I had no problem stuffing myself when I was younger. Also I do tend to have a dry sense of humor. I guess my way of dealing with the weight on my shoulders but I am a religious person but I really dont think God is out there tapping us and making us sick of various diseases and expecting us to deal with them and have no issues.

So I am not saying everyone got here through the same path, that was just my path and my dealing with my divine entity.

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Permalink Reply by PatientX on February 8, 2011 at 8:44pm

No disrespect taken. We'll see what the cards have in store for me. At this point the only thing I can do is speculate what may have cause it so that my future generations may have an idea of what to avoid. Minimize risk factors. I guess part of what I did as a consultant once upon a time has not left me. It was my job to analyze all risk factors and remove any possibilities for error with a written stipulations that nothing is 100% certain to protect myself from unnecessary work.

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Permalink Reply by LeeAnneL. on February 9, 2011 at 10:35am

Hey PatientX- Don't go too hard on yourself- you have to have some genetic tendency to get Type 2- I'm not saying that diet and lack of exercise aren't huge risk factors, but some people can never exercise, eat like total crap, put on a ton of weight, and never get type 2. Also, there are plenty of type 2's out there who have a healthy diet and exercise pre-diagnosis and aren't overweight and they just got screwed....
I am type 1, so I just straight up got screwed- I am just tired of the media blaming my T2 brothers and sisters for their disease.
Peace,
Lee Anne

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Permalink Reply by picklebird on February 9, 2011 at 10:47am

Yeah, I'm tired of the media blaming T2, too. And it's ironic that after losing 35 pounds (I was only 12 pound overweight at start) and eating healthy for at least six months, I have erratic days of highs and lows that defy explanation. I didn't have that for the last couple of months but I do now, telling me, I guess, I gotta keep it under 35 grams each meal or else. No more 45g. I wonder what the spiritual lessons of all this could be, the better we get at managing the diabetes, the hairier it gets anyway.

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Permalink Reply by Natalie ._c- on February 9, 2011 at 5:50pm

Thank you both for your understanding. I was never obese, but got diabetes anyway. Given that it's Type Weird (oral meds didn't work, and I was on insulin within 5 months of my formal diagnosis), I still have lots of empathy for everyone with diabetes, no matter what Type.

I recently came across a group called Health At Every Size which acknowledges that different people are built differently, and the issue is not weight, but health. If doctors who treat Type 2's would work with them on health, and not sing the "eat less, move more" refrain (which has been shown not to work), and communicate the idea of HEALTH to the media, there would be a lot more healthy and happy people!

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Permalink Reply by Stef on February 2, 2011 at 6:24pm

I have the same outlook on it as you do EGirl!!!

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Permalink Reply by Frances on February 2, 2011 at 6:50pm

Yes, you are crazy. I have never heard a sane person just blow off reason before.

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Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on February 2, 2011 at 7:00pm

Thank goodness I got diabetes and I didn't end up with gapped teeth, big ears and a really stupid grin.

And please stop laughing, I don't look like George Bush, he looks like ME!

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Permalink Reply by Gerri on February 2, 2011 at 7:29pm

LOL!

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