historic first
My gosh. It just struck me that, having waited 41 years for diabetes
complications to set in, I finally got one. All you other "frozen
shoulder" people have convinced me the doctor was right…and it’s such
a weird feeling!
Having gone without complications since age 3, I was really starting to
feel like I’d been granted some kind of immunity…which I hate losing.
Does anybody else remember the impact of their first "complication"
arising? Did anybody have that sense of "shoot, I never thought it’d
happen to ME" ? Or was everybody else more realistic from the start?
Laurie, still not quite believing it
www.authorspotlights.com/campbell
August 8th, 2005 at 1:27 am
Well, Laurie, I was lead to believe right off the bat that I’d die, so I
mentally prepared myself for ANYTHING negative. At 32 yrs of DM I was told
since I had no eye problems at that point, I wouldn’t get any. It was
EXTREMELY scary when at 47 yrs’ DM my vision went from 20/40 with correction
to 20/400 with/c in three weeks’ time! I had retinopathy, then a vitrectomy
was performed and I was without a semblance of good vision for 8 months. I now
have 20/20 & 20/25 withOUT correction. I have had a total of 6 eye surgeries
including DM cataracts, ptosis repairs, and laser. I also had/have thyroid
dysfunction (since ‘62 - treatment started ‘78), high BP (trtmt strtd ‘78)
endometriosis (hyst. in ‘79), frozen shoulder, neuropathy, kidney failure
(18%) with accompanying anemia. I also had an egg-sized breast tumor in ‘58
and shingles (DM related? Joan??) in ‘56. I DON’T WANT NOTHIN’ ELSE! But, it
ain’t my choice. 8^(
I’m still very happy for those who say DM is the best thing that ever happened
to them. They can have mine.
August 9th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
I remember my first complication clearly. It started at 30 retinopathy. I
spent a terrible 2-3 yrs there. Depression, denial, anger and back again. I
was miserable and made my family that way also.
Gail