This is Liz's story of living with Type 2 diabetes. Here she discusses the impact diabetes has had on her lifestyle initially and further into her condition.
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Well, I know it's going to sound a bit big-headed to say that it didn't really change my life because my mother had a heart complaint and so the salt aspect was already out of our diets and we didn't eat a lot of sweets and things as a rule, so it just made everybody a bit more aware of what was happening, but I wouldn't say that it changed my life drastically to begin with. with. Later on in life, it has changed. It has changed my life because I have got all the complications that go with diabetes. I've got problems with my eyes. I've got problems with my feet. And so those are the things that come up upon you and you realize, well, is all about diabetes and it makes you realize that having diabetes is not your fault and things that come upon you is part and parcel of the complications and some people get them and some people don't but you you just have to try your best to try and avoid them as long as you can.
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