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What is your understanding of sick day rules and driving regulations with regards to diabetes?
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What is your understanding of sick day rules and driving regulations with regards to diabetes?

This is Adrian's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes. Here he discusses what he understands regarding sick day rules and driving regulations related to diabetes. His knowledge of these regulations was acquired during a Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE) course.

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If you'd mentioned the word sick day rules to me five years ago, I wouldn't have known what you were talking about. And that, yes, that is, that is a, I don't like to use the word a failing. I think it's just that we've, we've, we've got a lot better in subsequent And I only really I only came across that term when I went on a Daphne course, and that was only three years ago. So, you know, it's quite it's quite alarming when you think about it, that that means I went about 20 years without any formalized education in it. and I'm certainly one of those that thinks that education is the key to it and should be an absolute priority, should be within reason standardised across the country and I think it's far from the case that it is. And of course the pandemic hasn't helped because Yep, something else that involves people getting together in small rooms.

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