Claradoon wrote:
AnneOleson wrote:
Yes, I missed you! My son has hard to manage diabetes too. He had to be hospitalized twice this winter.
Oh I am sorry to hear about your son with diabetes. You've probably told me his age but tell me again? I see that you're in Canada with OHIP, is it? I've got the same with my SunCard- for everybody else, I'm talking medicare. They even pay the ambulance.
Am I too old or do you remember Bobby Clarke, former captain of the Philadelphia Flyers? He had childhood diabetes too but I was surprised to read the the worst of it, from his childhood point of view, was that it impinged on his "team player" identity. But diabetes made him the special kid who had to eat an orange during class. Every summer, he holds a golf open game where you can golf with hockey celebrities for diabetes.
My son is 40! He wasn’t diagnosed with diabetes until he was 25. (My Mum had it too). I had no idea that you could be that old before Type 1 kicked in. Because we didn’t realize it could start that late we weren’t prepared for it and his diet wasn’t good. Then he was living on his own and its hard to cook good meals for just one person. It’s easier to order in.
We live in different parts of Ontario now. We lived in Quebec for five years in the ‘80s.
I went back and read about Bobby Clarke. They sure did give him a hard time about his diabetes. It reminded me of a man I worked with a long time ago. He was refused a drivers license because he was diabetic.
29 Mar 2018, 9:15 am
