'It is essential to make friends with diabetes'

'It is essential to make friends with diabetes'

"You have diabetes."Although 25 years have passed since that diagnosis, José Antonio Martínez Piña has not forgotten the void in his stomach that his doctor's words left him that day."I felt a lot of fear. I barely knew what it was, so the first thing I thought was that I was going to die," he recalls.

The feeling was put in his body for a few months."Before things were very different. No one gave you information, nobody explained to you," he says.Therefore, when someone arrives with that uncertainty in the eyes of the Association of Diabetics that presides in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), he does not hesitate to refer to an educator in diabetes.

"For me, it took me to meet him, was a before and after.

"The information is very important because with diabetes you have to know how to live. It is essential to learn to be his friend and not his slave," he remarks.

'Be your own doctor'
María Ángeles Álvarez knows a lot about this learning.In his 15 years working as an educator in the Pediatric Diabetes Unit of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, he has taught many children to live with the disease without problems."We try that the patient is almost his own doctor, to be demanding with the control of his disorder," says María Ángeles, who is delighted with a profession that he assumed almost by chance.

"I worked in the emergency department and, when I was transferred to this service I had to train. Now I don't change it for anything because it is very rewarding; you see what helps people," he says.

This nurse also underlines the importance of information."It would be necessary for more specialized units such as ours and that educators were more available," says this specialist who, despite working in Madrid, receives patients from Galicia, Asturias or Extremadura, among other communities.

'Understand diabetes and take control' is precisely the slogan chosen by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization for World Diabetes Day 2009, which is held this Saturday, November 14 on the entire planet.One of the objectives of this commemoration is to highlight the importance of education and call all governments to implement effective strategies and policies for the prevention and control of diabetes.

Now it only remains that health leaders put educators in diabetes and education consultations in diabetes where it is most missing: in primary care.
I, throughout the province of Valencia I only know 3 diabetes educators in primary school ... 3 ...: Shock:

Well, I hate diabetes with all my strength: if you control it, it is a roll and slavery and if not, a misfortune: Evil:

I am unable to imagine like this in 20 years, I assume that with the stem cells everything will change ... (dreaming is free!).

And what do you get hate ?????In my opinion, just getting bad blood and bad that we weigh us is incurable and that we have to accept, acceptance and a good attitude is essential for treatment, so it better to have it as "friend", today we have treatments thatThey allow us to lead a normal life, with hardly any limitations, only those that we want to wear. And I was very clear since I was diagnosed that I would not allow diabetes to become the owner of my life and for now I am doing well.

Hating her to express my frustration.

I don't know how much others have lost with this disease, I quite.Among other things, these days there is talk of the security guards who have gone to defend the alakrana and I cannot, even if I die of desire.Nor can I be a police officer or enter the army.
Anyway, I accept that I have to take care of myself and carry out the controls, but I really cannot imagine in 20 years with this.

Another thing I do not understand is that knowing that people are in hereditary, people play with their own children and have offspring.They will say: " the same do not touch them."Already, but if you have this great m?I would never forgive me personally (there each one with his conscience I want to make a mother I will adopt a creature of Africa).

I hope that nobody feels offended, everything said is only my opinion, as valid as that of any other person.

Man, I don't want my diabetes precisely: Mrgreen:
Auto, I understand what you want to say, I do not think about having diabetes or not ... as it is something that I cannot choose to try to waste the minimum time thinking about it.
Personally I have lost many more things because of other causes than by diabetes, including a job. But the priorities are marked by each one.

Less than 90 years ago I would have died in a short time because insulin did not exist ... 10 years ago there was neither the lantus nor less ... It is likely that in 20 years things are very different.

Type 1 diabetes is not hereditary, that I know there is no study that demonstrates that type 1 have more chances of having children with diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes does have a hereditary component although with good prevention it is very feasible to avoid it.

True everything you say, what happens is that I have days when I can't see the half full bottle :(

Everyone who decides to have children plays dice.

I have a diabetic daughter and there is no one in the family who is.According to that theory, I could "" have children with guarantees, but you see, it has touched us.

However, my wedding godfather (friend, not relative) was diabetic type 1. He married and none of his 5 children or his 11 grandchildren is.

It seems good to me that you do not risk, but then you don't even adopt, because no one guarantees that after a while that child will not debut.

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Hi Auto, look, as I will, not a single diabetic in the family and goes this great m and touches my 5 -year -old daughter ... and despite the fact that sometimes faltered and tired, as a mother I have decided to take theFront to the great m and teach my daughter that taking care and learning can live, and live well ... I feel that you can not do what you like (unfortunately, either, but for quite different reasons to diabetes), butYou must try to adopt a more positive attitude to her, that among other things she will live with you, for the moment, all life ... and I am sure that when you accept it like that, you will be much happier and things are going to leave better.
Greetings.

I have read everywhere that diabetes is hereditary.That you may not be diabetic and have a child that is but that, if you are, the chances increase.As it is something that I don't like, I don't want anyone, much less a young child.If I adopted and the child debuts ... I will have not had anything to do !!!!.I would take care of him and love him without feeling "guilty " in a way.This is only my opinion, if someone serves, that keeps it into account and if not, that completely ignores it.

To the moms and parents of children with DM I tell you that encouragement !!!You are worth a lot for being there in the gap all day without fainting.I would leave my soul.

Hello, for my diabetes, more than a friend is a resignation, because it changes your life, until you adapt. My explications on the diaetes did not come again because I have already lived it with my mother, but it is if it isIt is true that educators about diabetes I do not know, although between the doctor and the nurse they solve some problem and I get used to giving me the necessary explanations.

Well, I neither want it nor hate her, I have touched me and period, it is limiting my life and that I do not use insulin, my diabetes can be inherited is type II, although I never thought I would touch me, I'm thinAnd little tragone and the sweets never caught my attention, then I have taken a lot, and yet I have a sister who spends the day eating sweets, enjoys butt and has her phenomenal blood glucose, finally each one happens to each oneOne thing.What I tell you is that some things from my mother, their customs, their care, the grapes of luck, that I could not take them and put olives… are coming to mind… .. the way to ask you for something to eatThat she could not, how a real girl, things she hid so that we did not find them.

I could not have children, but I tried, I think life is a gift, that you have to thank, and I thank my mother to give me life, because apart from this disease I have others that have nothing to do withWith genes and are not to lose sight of them.

Perhaps over the years they take something that can cure us, that is never known, but we have to have hope.

A kiss :)

My mother!If I could have chosen between not having Juan or having Juan Diabetico, without a doubt, without any doubt, I would have chosen to have him.It is an intelligent, responsible, nice kid and ... above all happy !!!With that of hugs we give ourselves and the laughter we release together !!!World of things to enjoy at your fingertips and I assure you Auto, which you enjoy with everyone.The only difference is that it will carry its insulin pen everywhere.

I have been funny to read you because that would say my mother of me, although I don't have so many virtues: oops:
To me all the time they tell me "do not say that you have diabetes, that if you say it, no one hires youintolerance of some.Hopefully your child, when I have to look for work, can choose between telling it or not, and not hiding it.