http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070928...nillnessitself
just wondering what folks on this forum think about this. I would not want to give up 8 of 10 years of healthy life to live without treatment (though I suppose technically I couldn't live that long without treatment).
This quote blew me away:
As reported in the October issue of Diabetes Care, some patients said the inconvenience and discomfort of having to take numerous medications each day, carefully monitoring their diet, and getting the required amounts of exercise had a major impact on their quality of life. ....what kills me, is the conclusion is that the 'inconvenience and discomfort' of treatment contributes to a poorer quality of life ?!?!?!
I'm just curious how others react to this idea? And, the notion of the potential care-giver (I suppose the partner/spouse of a diabetic) looking at treatments to staunch significant long term disabilities and care requirements versus the person with diabetes who looks at the immediate irritation/inconvenience of treatment and pretends the long term implications don't matter. Seems really adversarial to me.
