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How much did you know about diabetes at the time of your diagnosis?
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How much did you know about diabetes at the time of your diagnosis?

This is Liz's story of living with Type 2 diabetes. Here she discusses her awareness of her condition at the time she was diagnosed. Her understanding was helped by her career in nursing and access to information within her job.

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You know a work in knowledge. You know a bit about everything, but it doesn't pertain to you until it happens to you. Then you realize it's an eye opener. The things that you've been saying were practical things, but now you really have to put them into practice. And it, it wasn't a shock for me, because I kind of expected it. And I come from the Caribbean, and we, there are lots of old wives tales that go around. So by this time I had been married. And I had, I've got two children, and they both were over 10 pounds in weight. And in the Caribbean, the old wives tale says that if you ever have churned at over 10 pounds in weight, there's a possibility that you're going to have, as they say, sugar in your blood. So it definitely worked out that way for me.

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