| Anyone else sick of people linking you with Type 2?
Seriously, would they change the name of one of these diseases. I am so sick of people thinking I have the disease their over weight grandfather had. They are not the same disease. It seems to me that the only relationship they have to each other is that they have similar symptoms. So what happens from sharing one name, more than anything else, is just a general ignorance.
In my mom's family, I have an uncle with Type 1. Both of his kids have Type 1 and his only grandson has Type 1. I also have another cousin in the family besides myself whom has Type 1. My dad, however, has Type 2. He had an emergency surgery for something unrelated and lost a lot of weight. Suddenly, no Diabetes. And then he regained the weight and he was back on the pills. Frankly, that's not an option for us with Type 1. It's not because we're old or because we don't get enough exercise or because we drink too much or are obese. It's because we have bad genes. And maybe there was a trigger as well, such as the stress of my parents difficult divorce. But it's our immune system, so radically different than not getting enough oil changes and revving the engine up too fast.
Seriously, I don't assume that all Type 2 Diabetics could have avoided their disease. But our diet and our health had nothing to do with it.  | 
