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How your experience with diabetes has impacted or changed your lifestyle.
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How your experience with diabetes has impacted or changed your lifestyle.

This is Adrian's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes. Here he discusses the ways diabetes has changed his lifestyle.

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I'm not aware of it, but I am a reasonably, well I am a glass half full person, and as I say the consultant who dealt with me was very, very measured in his portrayal of that risk. Um, and I'm also, um, I mean, it, it, it, it's, it's almost going on to the, uh, actually the, the, the, one of the subsequent questions, the third question is on my list of ones that you sent to me, Leah, where it says, how did diabetes affect your lifestyle? Well, I've always said that actually diabetes type one is a much better fit for a middle-aged man than for a child or a teenager. I'm not a particular adventurous person. I'm reasonably fit. I'm certainly active. So it didn't involve a sort of huge change of, you know, change of lifestyle. It didn't involve my giving up anything or it didn't involve my being concerned about something that I thought might be endangered. Now, if that had happened to me, for example, when I was 17, 18, you know, I used to play a lot of football. Now, that wouldn't have stopped, but it would have been a major, major concern for me. So yes, it fitted in quite well to the sort of person that I was and still am.

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