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Originally Posted by Gary_W  1. Pre-diabetes - A bit like being pre-menstrual but involves less cakes.
2. Syndrome X - A form of metabolic disorder that involves people in tight trousers deciding if you've got it or you haven't.
3. Type 2 - Fairy diabetes. Nothing to worry about whatsoever as it's not serious in any way shape or form. Can eat absolutely anything (unless it's birthday cake, and then you can make a scene about them not having any in front of the crowd)
4. Type 1 - Deadly serious diabetes (otherwise known as DSD). Involves lots of needles so it must be terrible. Nothing else about the condition is a problem. Cannot eat birthday cake in the same manner as a T2 (see Fairy Diabetes, above), but anything else goes.
5. Type 1.5 - A diabetic bisexual, partial to both bread AND cakes.
6. LADA - A very bad Eastern European car that has to go easy on the bread
7. Mody - Someone that samples other bits of diabetes and then puts them to heavy basslines and old blues records. Afraid of croissonts.
8. Pumper - Terminally ill, could croak in front of your eyes. Can eat anything as they'll be dead by morning so where's the harm?
Gary |
lol, it’s funny how true it is. There is an awful lot of ignorance i see it out there every day. Even my own family who go quiet on the subject, i have always been public about it and not afraid to do what i have to do. My latest comment was from a pharmacy which stated that all blood glucose monitors were the same and 100% accurate. Not the worst thing in the world but i soon corrected her, she was shocked. It’s like going into PCWorld and asking for advice on computers, most of them don't know sh!t. Diabetes is just another one of those clouds, like computers far too complicated for people to understand and so they would rather get on with their lives in ignorance. Can you really expect them to know anything about it? The only time they will ever "NEED" to know about it is when they have gone down with the big D, probably due to an insect bite or that cold they had last week. I am happy for people to know nothing about diabetes, the same way I know nothing about other diseases; however I would prefer if people didn’t “pretend” to know anything about it.
