This is Liz's story of living with Type 2 Diabetes. Here she discusses her experiences with community groups and why she believes they are important for supporting individuals through navigating diabetes.
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The Hammersmith & Fulham Diabetes Group I attend, and I had been doing an expert, which is one of the structured education. I used to do that with patients. And I also used to mentor. So all those sort of things have stopped just before COVID, anyway, or around COVID, because it's not practical. They are one-to-ones. But now I don't think I'll be doing them in the future. And I also sit in a couple of diabetes-led meetings and foot meetings. How helpful do you think having that kind of community is? Yes, it is because you can chat with people that have got the same complaint and that are worrying about the same things that you are worrying about. And also at these community things, they have speakers come in and they're usually diabetes led speakers. Now you have a consultant will come in and have a conversation about your diabetes or somebody will come in and talk about, your pharmacologist will come and talk about your medication and you can ask questions as well. So, and knowing that everybody there has the same complaint that you got makes it a bit easier for you to ask your questions as well because you don't think you're over the top about something because everybody else has got the same problem. So I guess that depending on where you are living, maybe your diabetic specialist nurse may be able to tell you if there's a community diabetes group around that you could join. And I think the no diabetes possibly has these kind of lists on it. I never looked that up actually, but possible. you
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