| Diabetes (Type 1 AND Type 2) is a SERIOUS, CHRONIC, PROGRESSIVE DISEASE.
Just because there may be few/no outward signs; like a cast on the leg or a limp to elicit sympathy, it doesn't change the above plain facts.
Anyone who thinks otherwise probably has D and has their head firmly planted in the sand... floating down that river in Egypt.
Those of us who step up and decide to take control may have full rich and hopefully healthy lives but there are no guarantees.
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With all that said, your statement suggests to me someone who is in the final throes of the COMPLICATIONS of D: blindness, renal failure, heart failure, amputations etc... whether they got there by their own neglect of themselves (most likely) or by the unpredicatble progressive nature of D I can't say.
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008. "...type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity... [so] most people assume that the excess weight causes the diabetes. But... it's possible that diabetes causes obesity" "One of the causes of your diabetes is a poor choice of ancestors." - Gretchen Becker - The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed | 
