[CycloneKitty]

I would say Freaky ... but then everything is freaky to me. It's freaky that in all my school years - i was the only one in the whole entire school of around 700 students to have Diabetes, and I went to numerous school. Its freaky that Im the only one in the family with diabetes .... cause Im special Its freaky that I only meet people with Diabetes when I go to Diabetes events - never in my circle of friends.

[Gangrel]

You know what, i have the same thing. I only have one friend that is a type one diabetic out of everyone that i know! The only other type one that i remember meeting by chance and not at some event was my last first aid instructor!

We both commented that it was very cool to meet someone who "knows the deal". I gave her this website, but I don't think she ever checked it out, and she bailed on me for the diabetes expo we had and i never have heard from her again...... Maybe i forgot to shower one day!

[Penny]

I havee been trying to tell my neighbors for years something is going on here. There are 5 people who live on my block, with serious Thyroid problems, maybe more as it is a long street and I do not know everyone. We live very close to a park that has a creek running through it. This creek goes through the property where a major producer of film operates, I will not say the name, but it starts with K. One of the favorite activities of neighborhood kids (and me, before I got too sick to do it) is to go "creek walking". I just think it is a strange coincidence, as there are other major illnesses in such a short area.

[Howard]

I've always believed diabetes to be caused by a dodgy gene that is "activated" so to speak by a viral infection so I say that it's a plausible theory.

I remember 2 or 3 months before I was diagnosed (I was 13 at the time), I went on a school trip for a few days to France. The first couple of days were fine, I enjoyed all the activities and everything. Then one day when we went to look around one of the towns in France, I had this sudden feeling of nausea and continued to feel sick and lethargic for the rest of the trip. I really didn't enjoy the coach ride home.. I had diarrhea and needless to say I spent most of the time in the coach toilet! The annoying thing was that all of my school friends enjoyed the whole of the trip without feeling ill at all, and I even ate all the same food as them so I don't think it could've been that.

Anyway a month later in October a friend of mine from school was diagnosed with diabetes (although she didn't go on the trip to france). It was also about October that I started to get the first symptoms of diabetes. I've always wondered now if I caught a virus from France that triggered my diabetes and unfortunately for my friend..passed it on to her aswell.