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Permalink Reply by Gerri on September 18, 2009 at 2:38pm

Hats off to your mother! What a lady! To think that she not only helped you, but countless other patients & where any of them would be now without her perseverance. Grateful you showed him.

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Permalink Reply by Unicornzzz on September 17, 2009 at 10:20pm

I agree with Dave the worst kind is the undiagnosed kind.

In second place would be a child with diabetes.

In third place would be, a diabetic in denial. Diabetics need to consider what kind of burden they may end up being on their family and friends if they do no take care of themselves. I recently lost a friend because she was in denial.

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Permalink Reply by Cathy Jacobson on September 18, 2009 at 12:41pm

I'll start by saying I am a type II; have had the "D" for 10 years.

Okay, but I work with kids who have had this disease almost since birth, all type I. I have adult friends who are being diagnosed now with type I and II.

Is there a worse case? I don't know, I think they are all pretty bad. And as I have said before, since when is there a good kind of diabetes? It all is bad as far as I am concerned. I think what is bad, is that people who know they have it don't do anything about it, and people who don't have it don't want to know if they are at risk.

We have to stop the pickering about whose got it worse, and start fighting for a cure for it all. After all, if they find something that works for II's then maybe with some tweaking it would work for I's and vice versa. Your type is your badge of honor, how you handle it is your business, but we all have diabetes.

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Permalink Reply by Gerri on September 18, 2009 at 2:43pm

Cathy,

Agree with Dave's statement. Everyone's responses are in accord that essentially there is no "worse" type. No bickering at all.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Rawlings on September 18, 2009 at 5:23pm

I take Cathy's comment to be about bickering ("pickering" is what I do to sort my favorite flavor of glucose tablets [coconut] from the strawberry ones in my giganto bottle of hypo relief) in general, not referring specifically to any of the discussion in this polite thread :-)

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Permalink Reply by Lauren on September 19, 2009 at 7:27am

Kind of off topic but...they make coconut flavored ones? Where did you get those? :)

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Rawlings on September 19, 2009 at 9:45am

Only place I've found them is in the large-size assorted fruit Dex4 sold at K-Mart. Also contains pink (strawberry? cherry?) and orange. IMO, they should increase ratio of coconut!

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Permalink Reply by Nicolas on September 23, 2009 at 6:35am

I only find DEXTRO "regular" ones and lemon, here in Belgium. Would like to try the coconut for a change... send me one ;-)
Gonna contact DEXTRO to make more flavours... with all those people having D... big $$$... or start myself something... ;-)

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Permalink Reply by rick phillips on September 18, 2009 at 7:17pm

The worst kind is the kind your kid has. the second worst is the kind you have.

rick phillips

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Permalink Reply by Joe Dennis on September 19, 2009 at 9:17pm

Your answer is the right one .

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Permalink Reply by Lizzy's Mom on September 19, 2009 at 9:35pm

Yeah =o( .

(Mom to Elizabeth, dx'd just after Memorial Day '09. Doing well though. She's a trooper and as spunky as they come!)

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Holko on September 19, 2009 at 3:48pm

It is all very bad.

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