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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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A small blood clot found during a retinal screening test gave Pamela such a shock that her attitude to her diabetes changed.

 



So I went on for several years just, you know, thinking, “Oh, well, one day, one day I'll take it seriously, one day I'll take it seriously.” And it took me actually three and a half years to take it, to take it seriously. And there were two things really that prompted me to take it seriously. One was I was beginning to get very painful feet. And the other was I went for a retinal screening, I think it's called retinal screening, for my eye. And the den-, the optician said, “Oh, I can see you've got diabetes. You've got a small aneurysm.” And my heart just stopped. It actually, I thought, “Oh, my goodness. You know, it's going to rupture. I'm going to go blind.” So he reassured me that it was very small and, but they'd have to keep an eye on my eyes just to make sure that it wasn't. So I came out of the optician's determined that I was going to change my lifestyle.
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