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Were you aware of how diabetes could impact different part of your body during the time you were diagnosed?
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Were you aware of how diabetes could impact different part of your body during the time you were diagnosed?

This is Adrian's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes. Here he discusses where he looked for information and how he was told about diabetes being a 'whole body condition.'

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Yeah, I quickly became aware of that. Yes, yes. You know, I remember buying, you know, the guide to diabetes from still the British Diabetic Association in those days. What's quite soon after became Diabetes UK. I've still got that book. It's largely okay. But But yes, and I can remember the consultant that I was placed under at my hospital, Blackpool Vic, was very good because on the one hand, he was very, very reassuring that, you know, this is no big deal. You'll live a normal life and, you know, as long as you take care of yourself and do the right things, It's not going to be a big deal in your life, but I do remember him using the term and whole body condition that stuck in my mind.

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