no. i was just saying how it does define me sorry. i got you counfused
Allie,
I just think it is total coincidence that those things happened in your town. As Alyssa said earlier you can't catch diabetes. It may run in your family but catching it is highly unlikely. As far as getting a virus I have heard that as well. Alot of people that I know have all gotten diabetes in the fall that is some weird correlation. Who knows why we all actually get it! I guess if we knew why they can cure it.
I'm wondering if it just happens to be flu season, for example. If more people are sick in the fall, the virus make attack more pancreases, thus more people would be diagnosed with diabetes around the same time.
Who knows :)
gina-yes i know i was just saying how it was a coincidence.
WOW.. thats so weird!!
My BFF has had diabetes since she was born, we met in kindergarden and were always together... in fourth grade I was diagnosed and my family had no history of diabetes at all.... I don't think you can catch to but is that a little strange to you!!
XXXX -ally (with a Y ) LOL =)
i was diagnosed in march. does that ruin the fall theory? lol.
and diabetes is not something you catch. there are genetic and environmental factors that trigger it.
obviously its always been heard that a virus can trigger it. some of my doctors have theorized that i my diabetes was triggered from my vaccine shots when i was a baby (since I was diagnosed at 2). In the past poorly shaken vaccines has been rumored to cause everything from diabetes to autism.
One thing that's always been in the back of my mind is religion, and possibly seeing at one point what we'd do some day. In elementary school I knew a type 1 diabetic, and though we never talked about it much, if at all, I do recall being strongly opinionated when it came to 'could I ever do that.' I was adamant I could not :D
Did anyone else ever know other T1's before they were diagnosed?
andrewoberson-
wow.
yes i heard they were looking into "bad" vaccines causing autisim but never heard about it for diabetes.
alyssa-
well my adult cousin is one and thats how i got it as you know if you read my thing.
but i never really knew enough.
all i knew(thought i knew) was that you couldnt eat nething and the shots was one thing you stuck out in my mind.
i thought heck no could i!
i love desert. and i cant stand even the sight of needles.
then i was taking five of them a day giving them to myself.
ha never seen that coming thats for sure haha
Me either, Allie! I guess you could say diabetes was probably one of the things I never would have guessed I would find myself in the middle of. Ever. And yet, here I am.
Yep Alyssa - There was a girl in my class, her name was Stephanie and I just knew her as 'the diabetic'. I sat by her in 2nd and 3rd grade. She would just put her head on the desk and pass out. I volunteered to take her to the office everytime she did. I wasn't sure what diabetic meant at the time. I just knew I took her and she drank juice. Then wham, 4th grade and I am diagnosed. Everyone would ask me, ' are you like stephanie?' I'd say no. I didn't know how to express it, we were both 'diabetics' but I knew when I was going low so I just went to the office myself. I haven't seen her since the 8th grade - I wish she was on here, I'd love to have a chat with her. In the years I knew her, you know we never had a conversation about it.
Me too! I only knew her for one or two years, I think, and then she disappeared. I bet we'd be great friends now :D
most deff. same her alyssa
all my life i never had one little thing wrong with me then one night i found out i had a disease tht i wuld live with for the rest of my life.
talk about mixed emotions.
i know you know what im talking about.
haha
im sure every type one does.
doug d- ha woww.
yeah i always kinda wonder how ppl go into seizures and stuff.
i mean every time im low i catch it.
i dont understand how you can let yourself go.
i know a girl who is a sophomore and is type one she has seizures all the time. she never takes her shots. i was talking to her one time and i was asking what she did about cake she said she just took the icing off and ate it and she said that her sugar was probaly like five hundred right at that time because she hadnt taken any insulin yet and it was at night at a party.
can you imagine?
i think its sad letting yourself go like that.
Most definately, Allie. I don't think there's any other word (maybe pitiful :D) to describe it but sad.
yess but i mean now i feel "defined" i feel kinda unique like im allie.. the type one diabetic! ha ya know?
Maybe if people looked at the little things instead of just the obvious, even more progress could be made. Does that make sense??
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seacat, I actually think the opposite way, I think if we didn't look for all the little small loop holes and opened our eyes to what was placed right in front of us, we could find a cure much faster.
its like when you do a math problem and instead of doing it the way its supposed to be done, you just go through and plug in a bunch of random numbers until you get it to work out right.
makes sense to me savs!