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| 01 Born Kashmir 1936. Came to England after partition (slip – means after war), 1945. Prep school matron found me drinking bathwater. Diagnosed at King’s. | |
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| 02 Deliberate hypo - helped all though life. Glass syringes. Needles resharpened. Urine test. | |
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| 03 Outside, no-one understood, but extra rations popular. At school, ate apart. Food weighed. Mother nurse at school, then left – to make me independent. | |
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| 04 Recap. Blood sugar tested at King’s. 1 injection daily – mixed dose. 2 injections from age 13. No bad hypos. Got strong. Sport. | |
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| 05 Schooldays. Glucose tablets. Attitudes of others. Weighed food. Health due to carbohydrate counting. More difficult when left school… | |
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| 06 …1954-7 Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy. No money. Bad diet. Hard to fit in injections. Ignorant re alcohol. During hospital practice, had to avoid affecting patients. | |
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| 07 Drove - eyesight good. Student life irregular. Benefited from mother allowing independence e.g. travel abroad. | |
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08 Boyfriends dropped me because diabetic.
Little contact with G.P. – just Kings, then Radcliffe. Healthy. Just needed support.
Developments in tests for sugar. | |
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| 09 Married 1958. Daughter born 1961. Sir John Peel at King’s. Would baby live? Caesarian. 1 of first diabetics to breastfeed. Son born. Marriage broke up. | |
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| 10 Urine tests impractical. Met boy who kept syringe in dirty hanky. After left school, didn’t sterilise. Had to control blood sugar by how you felt. | |
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| 11 Haemorrhage in eye in 1970s. No laser treatment. Couldn’t lift children. No treatment until years later – light coagulator. Laser treatments. Lost sight in 1 eye. Still working as artist. | |
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12 Marriage broke up late 60s.
Heavy lifting at work. Gave up & worked as artist.
Support from Oxford Diabetic Clinic since 1969.
Fear of having hypo as lone parent.
Eyesight only complication. | |
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13 Treatment at Eye Hospital.
Remarried – supportive husband.
Diabetic Clinic wonderful. Can phone own nurse. Broke ankle 1987… (Slip – in fact 1997) | |
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| 14 Put in plaster well at John Radcliffe. Checked regularly, because feeling in feet lost 1985. A doctor insisted on removing plaster. Never mended. | |
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15 Won’t sue, but patient knows best. Costs NHS because doctor wouldn’t listen. A disaster.
Chiropody no longer at local surgery, so pay for visits. | |
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| 16 Not enough exercise due to ankle. Angioplasty 2000. This year (2002), laminectomy. 1 mistake caused all problems. Must listen to diabetics. Until about 10 years ago, in hospital, no say in insulin. Now, regulate own dose… | |
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| 17 Adjustment of insulin dose. Medical staff more flexible. Still an unfashionable disease.Public more aware - know 2 types. | |
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18 Now, diet drinks, information on packaging. In past, drank water.
Friend who developed Type A/2 said “like walking on tightrope”. Diabetes hasn’t determined course of life. Still work at 66. Exhibit paintings. Travel. Husband thrives on my diet. | |
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19 Diabetes doesn’t bother him, but can see how could upset marriage.
Don’t tell everyone I’m diabetic. Story re dinner party.
Recap re advantages of being made to go into hypo. | |
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20 Medal after 50 years. After 60 years, will get another. Magazine, “Balance”, tells information hidden before.
Medical staff hid things in past. Pros & cons of protective attitude.
Dangers of pressures to slim… | |
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21 Medical staff more open over last 10 years. But not enough time to talk.
Why got diabetes? Great aunt had Type B. Perhaps shock of return to England, or father’s death…Decided low risk for children. Children & grandchildren healthy. | |
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