Pamela - Interview 08  

Pamela - Interview 08

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 50
Background: Pamela is the Director of a health-related organisation. She is divorced with one adult child aged 28. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Pamela was diagnosed with diabetes four years ago. She takes metformin and rosiglitazone.

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Pamela attributes her diabetes to both hereditary and lifestyle factors.

 



Oh, I got it because I overate, I'm in no doubt about it. I mean I've got a genetic disposition to it. My grandmother, my father had it. But, no, I ate completely the wrong things. I mean I was reading an article earlier on today about clotted cream in, I think it was in the Sainsbury's magazine. And I thought, “My goodness, I lived in Somerset, next to a dairy farm.” We grew up on whole milk. Never heard of anything other than clotted cream in my life. You know, cheese, butter, I mean it was just in abundance. We had, you know, and that was fine. My mother made cakes and all of this sort of thing. And that was fine. The way we ate was fine when we were doing a lot of activities, children whatever. It was when the processed stuff came in. Like, you know, suddenly you could buy cakes or you, you know, you, home-made jams or ice cream, you know, things that were suddenly different. And that I think is when, and we stopped, then I stopped being so active, in my mid 20s I wasn't so active.

And I think I've had a lifetime of eating, you know comforting foods, and I think that's just what I enjoy eating, but I ate too much of them. Oh, yes, I think it's, it's definitely that, and certainly the last five or six years that I've been in London because I was tired and working hard and travelling and commuting, whatever, you know, I was grabbing whatever I could, whenever I could.

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