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Living with Diabetes: A Doctor's Personal Journey

An intensive care doctor shares their personal experience with diabetes, discussing the fears of potential long-term complications such as dialysis and amputation, and how these concerns drive a commitment to meticulous diabetes control.

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So the things that worry me about having diabetes, I don't think change in different times of the year. So when I was diagnosed as diabetes, I was working as an intensive care doctor. And what I just fell apart about was the thought that when I was old, I would be on dialysis and having had both legs chopped off. Because that's kind of what I saw in my job. And I didn't know or realize that there were totally people out there with diabetes who'd had diabetes for their whole life, who had all four limbs and working kidneys and all of those other things. So I think the things that, so the thing that I worry about all the time is not right now, but in 20 years or 30 years time, what my feet will be like and how well my kidneys will work and whether I can still see and will I have had a heart attack and all that stuff. And that kind of, I guess, motivates me to be quite obsessive about my diabetes control.

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