What did you understand about diabetes at the time of your diagnosis?

I'm probably understating my knowledge of it, as a teacher I had come across children with diabetes and I therefore knew that there was a thing where you had to inject yourself with insulin and I knew that that then became a major issue for handling the condition because Obviously, this is the thing I would say about diabetes is the most the day to day threat is from the treatment, not the condition type one. And yeah, so as a teacher, I was always aware that there were, you know, I'd come across one or two pupils in my care where that that was the sign to look out for. And also, I mean, I mentioned the lack of Dr. Google, but it was already becoming known in, you know, just through general reading in the media, that diabetes was on the rise. And that particularly, of course, refers to type two. So I knew that, but I wasn't really familiar with with the difference between that one that was supposedly on the rise. And the one that afflicted children in my in my care. I had also had experience in the fairly recent past prior to that date of children of two colleagues of mine who had developed type 1 and therefore I was aware of the sort of and in their case it was a fairly dramatic thing which I suppose put me off the scent a bit. They were in a very bad way very suddenly and admitted to us and I yeah whilst I had these unexplained symptoms I was never you know I was never dysfunctional in any way I was was just mildly uncomfortable shall we say.