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[quote user="Sarah"]
I blame Pat.
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i second this
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you guys make me smile haha
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you make me puke =P
haha
LOL on the blaming of Pat :)
Some of you may have taken my post earlier as being abit harsh - but I do love my Mummy :). Seriously tho', I just don't know any other way of living then being a diabetic - it's what makes me what I am as others have said here. So far - it's opened up many doors for me with being open/honest about having it (that's another can of worms to open up for a forum discussion if it's not been approached on already). I love to show people that we can lead a good healthy life, yes, with ups/downs (aka Roller Coaster Ride of Diabetes that I write about). It also makes me help/understand other people with more serious health problems then what I have.
[quote user="Batts"]
What good is it going to do anyone blaming something/someone for their diagnosis? Will it cure their diabetes? Will it make it easier to deal with? No. It's just waste of energy.
I think that in order to cure diabetes, we first have to find out what triggers it and how to stop that, but I don't think we should go looking for something to blame just to try and make ourselves feel better or find "closure" for our diagnosis.
I feel very sad for your friend's little brother. I can't imagine how that kid feels having his own family member blame him for their mother's diagnosis.
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I put the word blame in quotations hoping that people wouldn't take it literally. I was trying to find one word to describe that feeling you get when you think of an event that happen prior to diagnosis that deep down you think maybe if that event hadn't happened, then diagnosis may have occurred at a different point in life. Blame was the wrong word.
I have completely accepted my diabetes and live happily with it, I just like it wonder if I wasn't having too much fun as a teen if I would've still been diagnosed at the same time. I don't think its unhealthy or negative, I'm just curious and enjoy over thinking things, I was seeing if others were the same.
We had another miscommunication in my effort to use as little words as possible. The brother is the older brother, he was 19 he went away, and went on a road trip with a bunch friends up and down CA. He didn't tell anyone he was going on a trip, so to the family it appeared he had ran away. That brother is now almost 30 and my friend would never tell him that he secretly thinks that's what brought on his mother's T1. No need to feel sad for him : )
Well, hate to shoot a hole in your proposition, I recall being told it skips a gen, too, when I was little. When I proposed that to my dad, he told me nope, no one on either side of the tree had diabetes. I was the first we knew of; and to this day, no one in my grandparents' generation was outed as a diabetic. Then, when I was in my mid-20's, my dad was diagnosed (in his mid 40s) as a type 1.5 (not quite sure if T1 or T2 - his endo's words, not mine - but he's being treated like a T1). I, like Batts, find it a waste to blame anything. An auto-immune deficiency, rhino virus, brown acid, the baseball strike, or maybe the Vietnam War could have been the cause - who cares. I'm happy and healthy and a walking builboard that it is not the root of all that that ails me!
I don't blame anything or anyone. It just happened and that's the way it is. I have just learned to live with it and (try) not to let it run my life or keep me from doing whatever I want, how I want and when I want to do it. I can't change the way I am.
I blame heredity.
i used to blame everyoen about me getting diabetes and not helping me..but now that i am older, i know no matter how much my family have wanted to help, they couldnt. diabetes in my opinion, just means i have to be more cautious when it comes to certain foods, mostly my best friend known as sweets. diabetes didnt really change my life that much. i have my days where i lock myself in my room and just cry because the stress of diabetes gets to me, as im sure it does to everyone. since going on the pump about 9 months ago, diabetes seems easier and less of a burden to me. i just recently graduated 8th grade(wednesday, may 26th) and now high school will be easier with my pump. i can go into high school with one less thing to worry about.
I blame the NY Yankees.
[quote user="Sarah"]
I blame the NY Yankees.
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Agreed! Red Sox > Yankees.
I was diagnosed 1n 1945 when I was 6. About six months prior to my diagnosis I had chicken pox and mumps. I was very sick with both diseases. My young body had suffered from those diseases and also from measles when I was younger. I feel that my pancreas was affected and diabetes resulted. i was lucky to survive. Not much was known about diabetes back then. There were three doctors who could not diagnose my problem even though I had all the classic symptoms of diabetes in the advanced stages. A fourth doctor finally decided my blood sugar should be tested. If we had not gone to a fourth doctor I would not have lived much longer.
I do not blame anyone or anything for my diabetes. It would have been great if there had been vaccines for those diseases in the 1940's. There has not been any Type 1 among my relatives for four generations, and maybe never. I have been Type 1 for 64 years and I do not have any complications.
Sarah, watch out, I live in Kingston, NY. I am just three hours from Yankee Stadium. LOL! You are safe, I am not a fan of major league baseball.
I have a friend who was in a bad car accident and was diagnosed just 2 months later. I had Mononucleosis and was diagnosed a 2 weeks after that.
I don't tend to blame anything, I think it is a waste of my time.
I completely blame myself for my daughter becoming a diabetic at age 2. Even though the genes come from her father's side (he's also type 1, as is his grandmother.) I feel like if I had not craved sweets as much when I was pregnant with her- or if I had not drank that damn diet doctor pepper while I was nursing her, then maybe, just maybe she would not have to deal with this for the rest of her life. I know it's completely crazy, but I still have a guilty conscience............. She's four now and will never know anything different, and I doubt it will ever cross her mind to blame me................... and for the record, she did have a little virus (throwing up, etc...) just before she was diagnosed.
I think like anything else, at times it could be hereditary, but other times "hereditary traits" have to start somewhere. My father knocked himself out on his lunch box running home from school when he was 6 years old and became a diabetic 6 months later. My son was dx at 5yrs.11months and we are totally unable to think of an illness, problem, stress or anything else that could have "triggered" his diabetes. He was NEVER sick--no childhood colds, ear infections, nothing--a very healthy child.
I dont blame anything for Riley having diabetes there is no point. I was more sad than mad. I did get a little angry at first but that was grief and the stages of it. I dont need something to blame because it doesnt do me any good. For another thing with her we just are not sure its to hard to pin point what it could have been for sure that may have triggered hers. For me its easier just to say her pancreas stopped working and the result of that is diabetes.
G'day, do I blame anything no...well just myself.
At the time I got diagnosed I was going through a very stressful period of my life with major work issues and the birth of our first child (very poor sleeper). The stress from work was the thing that tipped the scales I think. Regardless of the stress I don't blame that, T1D would have come out eventually anyway...just one of those things i think. My wife blames herself for the major stress around the birth contributing to bringing it on, but I honestly don't think that is right. There is not one thing that can be blamed and my wife doesn't even come into consideration in me allocating blame, there is no blame.
I can't really blame genetics either as I am the only known T1D case in my family history, although I have asked me family to get tested for susceptibility but they are slow/reluctant to get it done. I have also had my share of accidents (1 big car one) and a few major knee operations. Apart from that, I was a healthy and active young man. Not so active now but that is because I work a lot and spend the rest of my time with my little boy being a dad.
So the trigger could have been anything. I basically put it down to the fact that I just had to be different (I started that with the red hair).
Well I don't know what to believe because when I was D in 97 I was told that it skipped generations to, my grandfather on my dad's side had type 2(i'm pretty sure it's type 2) and my dad's oldest brother had type 1 and passed away within the past yr from it, my little brother had type 1 and passed away almost 9 yrs ago from D and then there is me, the only women in our family to have D that we know of.
When I was D I had just moved away from home for the 1st time and was eating what ever I wanted instead of the regular healthy meals I used to have at home and I put on ALOT of weight at the time(almost 60 lbs in 4 mos.) and so I could think the weight gain was my trigger. Do I blame anyone or anything for me having D, NO I don't it was probably going to happen at some point in my life it just happened at that point.
I do agree with others that there is no point to blaming someone or something but if I had to blame anyone it would be Pat!!!!!!!
"If it's true that we are what we eat, then I am easy, fast and cheap" -- Barbara Johnson
[quote user="Richard Vaughn"]
I was diagnosed 1n 1945 when I was 6. About six months prior to my diagnosis I had chicken pox and mumps. I was very sick with both diseases. My young body had suffered from those diseases and also from measles when I was younger. I feel that my pancreas was affected and diabetes resulted. i was lucky to survive. Not much was known about diabetes back then. There were three doctors who could not diagnose my problem even though I had all the classic symptoms of diabetes in the advanced stages. A fourth doctor finally decided my blood sugar should be tested. If we had not gone to a fourth doctor I would not have lived much longer.
I do not blame anyone or anything for my diabetes. It would have been great if there had been vaccines for those diseases in the 1940's. There has not been any Type 1 among my relatives for four generations, and maybe never. I have been Type 1 for 64 years and I do not have any complications.
Sarah, watch out, I live in Kingston, NY. I am just three hours from Yankee Stadium. LOL! You are safe, I am not a fan of major league baseball.
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Richard, it's so great to see you on here! I love to hear stories of people who are doing so well after living w/ D for so long, and being diagnosed before the treatments we have today. It's very motivational for me, and I bet for many younger people on here. Congrats on a great a1c too!
And I guess I will welcome you b/c you swear you don't visit Yankee Stadium. (;
I honestly blame poor nutrition. My parents only ever gave me junk food as far as I can remember. No one else in the family has diabetes except me. I was diagnosed at 13 simply because I went into a coma. My parents weren't ones to take me to the doctor for anything. It's probably not good to blame them, but I really feel that really bad nutrition was if not all the biggest part of it,
I think mine was an infection. I am the only one in a large family and didn't get dx'ed till I was 52! Still think it's my little boy inside!! LOL
Thanks Sarah, I am pleased to be here. I did go to Yankee Stadium one time in the 1980s. I went by bus, all by myself. I sat in the outfield seats and could not tell what was going on. I got the worst sunburn I have ever had. The Blue Jays beat the tar out of the Yanks that day. I bet that put a smile on your face. Lol! It was one of the worst days I can remember.