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Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Jan 10, 2020 | Replies (317)Comment receiving replies
@trishanna I appreciate your kind words. Actually there are no new problems, just a continuation of the old. Nothing is different; sometimes old problems come to light and that adds to what's already going on. My husband's heart problems have been forefront since 2011, which isn't decades and my diabetes is just three years old. Because we were never sickly, it seems like a very long time to deal with medical problems now. Doctors love to say it's part of aging; I don't really buy that, as I was still teaching a few years ago. But, we deal with what comes and do the best we can one day at a time.
I hope you and your husband are well.
Carol @retiredteacher
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"It's part of aging" seems to be a standard reply - unfortunate because it blinds doctors to possible problems perhaps exacerbated by aging but not the cause. I've just been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, blamed on heredity (maybe) and "old age" (maybe). But the real culprit, I believe, was my polycystic ovary disease, virtually ignored by my doctors, but a known cause of diabetes. As folks say, though, it is what it is, and we just keep on keeping on!!! Take care!