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How did your family react to your diagnosis?
This is Liz's story of living with Type 2 diabetes. Here she discusses how her family had reacted to her diagnosis.
With diabetes running within the family there was a profound understanding of adapting the whole family lifestyle together.
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My family, I suppose, are very philosophical because I just told them that this is what I've got and that their grandmother had this and we have to be careful now as a family because it could be that they could get it, so it doesn't mean that they will escape it. So whether they got it earlier in life or later in life, we need to start preparing ourselves. So everybody started eating the same foods and cutting down on sugar and all those things and doing as much exercise and things like that.
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