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Duncan - Interview 27  

Duncan - Interview 27

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 61
Background: Duncan is a retired teacher and careers advisor who is single with no children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.
Brief outline:Diagnosed 2 years ago. Duncan takes metformin, gliclazide, simvastatin, atenolol, ramipril and amlodipine. He has had neuropathy in his feet since 2006 and expects to receive laser eye treatment soon.

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Duncan thinks that his old habits of eating lots of takeaways and heavy drinking may have caused his diabetes.

 



I mean you get annoyed sometimes. And also I think I am probably helped by the fact that it is my fault in a way. I mean I am not saying it's entirely my fault, but one of the reasons I ate too many take-home Chinese and too many bottles of wine, was being coming home at half eight in the evening after a long day's teaching I probably felt I needed it. So I mean to that extent may be it wasn't entirely my fault.

But I knew I used to teach alcohol awareness at school, so I couldn't say I didn't know that I was drinking too much, and I couldn't say I didn't know that not taking enough exercise was bad for me. So to that extent, I may be don't feel as miserable as I would do, if I had been struck down by something that I had been responsible for.

And if I, I mean it sounds pretty bad to say that if I did sort of pop off tomorrow then, because I had eaten or drunk or whatever too much for sixty one years, then at least I had sixty one good years. So to that extent I am not too bothered.
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