Steve talks openly about not feeling 'responsible' for his Type 1 Diabetes. He says it would be easy to question 'why has it happened to me' but he feels it's much better to 'play the hand you are dealt. He also talks about his optimism will all the developments and technology now available. His advice is that dwelling on the matter would not be the best way forward.
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No, it's a short answer. I mean, I'm the first person in either of my family trees to have diabetes, type 1 diabetes, certainly as far as anybody who's in my family can remember. It's a bit of a quirk. You know, it would be easy to sit there and say, well, you know, this happened to me and blah, blah, blah. But, you know, you play the hand you're dealt, don't you? And it's a very similar point around sort of looking at it in the round, which is, you know, there are worse things out there. I'm not saying diabetes is a cakewalk, but it's not the end of the world. And, you know, particularly given advances in things over the last decade or so, in terms of glucose monitoring, insulin pumps, the interrelationship that people are developing between the two. If ever there were a time to get an illness like this, you know that now is that time. It sounds very strangely optimistic but I don't think frankly when you get something like this dwelling on where it came from is particularly helpful. What you need to try and do is to understand how can I best deal with it whilst still living the life that I generally want to to live as well. So now I've never really thought about where it came from or why.
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