Diabetic Freebies?

Elliebell

Thanks Goldie - Bambimo & Kyle

Riffs - It's nobodys fault they get diabetes, and as for getting Type 2 diabetes being your own fault, thats rubbish in itself!! My granddad got type 2 which then turned into type 1, he didnt ask for it or do anything to promote it!

Maybe you need to re read up on it!

All i was asking for was a some simple freebies which the NHS dont supply.

My other half works and all diabetics are entitled to free medication from the NHS so he's not a bum as someone else stated!

Sorry but i thought the other man was rude and yes i was back to him and i posted up somewhere saying sorry about this and wanting to keep it off the board.

But no one deserves slagging off because they have diabetes.

My friend died the other day of a brain tumour, does that me he wasnt entitled to freebies either??

This is getting way out of hand, so thanks to the people who supported what i said. I may have been harsh but i felt at the time it was jusified.

Sorry

vellum

Quote from wikipedia on diabetes:
Obesity is found in approximately 90% of developed world patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Other factors may include aging and family history

:eek:

we are all responsible to our own health, we cannot live an abusive lifestyle and expect other taxpayers to foot the bill when things go wrong.

k18dan

riffs wrote:

it depends on what form of diabetes you have. If u have Type 1 diabetes then you deserve freebies etc but if you have Type 2 (which is you OWN FAULT) then you deserve nothing, not even NHS help in my opinion.

lets just hope one of you loved ones dosnt get it...... :mad: :mad: :mad:

AMO

riffs wrote:

it depends on what form of diabetes you have. If u have Type 1 diabetes then you deserve freebies etc but if you have Type 2 (which is you OWN FAULT) then you deserve nothing, not even NHS help in my opinion.
Saying that diabetes isnt an illness is just stupid semantics and it depends on ur definition of an illness. to most people diabetes IS an illness, so get off ur high horse Elliebell

Riffs, what you say could really offend people. In principal, Type II diabetes has a greater chance of being derived from eating poorly than from hereditary reasons, but it's highly unlikely that Type II diabetics go out of their way to become diabetic and there is a good chance that they would develop Type I anyway if they did not get Type II.

In the last few decades of the world, people have been made aware of the ill effects of drugs and drink and parents know how to teach children to avoid these. However, it is also the decades that have bought cheap unhealthy food to the market and also a lack of knowledge on food health resulted in parents not knowing that teaching a child not too eat too much is also important. Many people simply thought you'd get a bit fatter, but very little adverse effect.

Many children are bought up not knowing what they should and shouldn't eat and in what quantitites. They have little control over what they eat until they are grown up and people aren't aware that overeating increases the chances of diabetes.

Many feel gutted that they've been good staying away from drink and smoking and suddenly find themselves with an illness that has even worse consequences.

So no, Type II diabetics do not become diabetic on purpose.

AMO

hpsaucey

to the people asking about diabetic freebies i would like to know how having type two is own fault. I had no symptems at all i am not OVERWEIGHT was not drinking more.weeing more etc etc and it was only because i asked for blood test for something else i was told at age 50 i was diabetic so how was that MY FAULT. pls explain

chaddy7604

Elliebell wrote:

Hi

I was wondering if anyone could help, my OH is diabetic and i was wondering if anyone knows of any diabetic freebies we can get?

Thanks in advance!

Ellie

This is the Freebies Forum.

Any chance that we might all stop our squabbling and get back to the OP :T

goldie-bambino

THIS HAS GOT WAY OUT OF HAND!
ALL THAT WAS ASKED WAS A FREEBIE FOR A DIABETIC PERSON
NOT SOMEONE TO PAY MORE TAX TO COVER THEIR NHS BILL.
IF A SMOKER ASKING FOR PATCHES, A MOTHER ASKING FOR NAPPY SAMPLES OR AN ETHNIC PERSON ASKING FOR HALALL SAMPLES GOT THE SAME REACTION THEN THERE WOULD BE UPROAR.
IF SOMEONE CAN NOT COME ON HERE AND ASK FOR A GENUINE FREEBIE WITHOUT THE CRITICISUM THEN I THINK IT IS TIME THE WHOLE FORUM WAS CLOSED. AFTER ALL ISN'T THIS WHAT ITS FOR?????
:wall:

zztopgirl

I wish people with chronic illnesses or disabilities could get freebies. Top of my wish list is a beauty salon within the local hospital, so i can have a quick facial or massage to *try* and cheer me up.

All those famous people get freebies from designer and beauty houses all the time so joe public will see them and buy them, wont it be nicer to (for instance) give people with cancer a nice freebie to cheer them up? Would look better too, than freebies going to mega-rich celebrities.

goldie-bambino

zztopgirl wrote:

I wish people with chronic illnesses or disabilities could get freebies. Top of my wish list is a beauty salon within the local hospital, so i can have a quick facial or massage to *try* and cheer me up.

All those famous people get freebies from designer and beauty houses all the time so joe public will see them and buy them, wont it be nicer to (for instance) give people with cancer a nice freebie to cheer them up? Would look better too, than freebies going to mega-rich celebrities.

WELL SAID zztopgirl
my dad had cancer and although the macmilan nurses were fantastic it would have been nice for him to have something to smile about.
his sister now has diabeties and it would also be nice to get a little freebie to cheer her a little, theres nothing wrong in being nice to people in this world

alba37

riffs wrote:

it depends on what form of diabetes you have. If u have Type 1 diabetes then you deserve freebies etc but if you have Type 2 (which is you OWN FAULT) then you deserve nothing, not even NHS help in my opinion.
Saying that diabetes isnt an illness is just stupid semantics and it depends on ur definition of an illness. to most people diabetes IS an illness, so get off ur high horse Elliebell

Total rubbish!