How is Diabetes a "family disease"?
How would diabetes, besides the obvious genetics factor, be considered a family disease? I need to answer this question for a health exam. Please cite your sources! 10 points for the most helpful answer or sources!! DO NOT WRITE THE PAPER FOR ME! I am not about to use any paper written for me by someone, that is called plagiarism. I am using this website as a source for my paper, not as a free pass to a homework assignment. I am asking for a professional view and opinion, so please answer as helpfully as you can.
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Diabetes: A Family Disease
For starters, the shock and disbelief that you had ever-so-cunningly invaded my baby’s body without me even realising leaves me with chills and tears spilling onto my desk. I look at photographs of my baby Lance 3 months before diagnosis and I cannot tear my eyes away, because I know that you had already begun the beta cell revolt in his body. His piercing screams in the middle of the night had already confirmed that you were destroying these virtually perfect, brand new cells. ( The doctor’s initially diagnosed these screaming episodes night terrors.)
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Apart from the genetic factors to which you refer, I'd say that diabetes mellitus (I take it you're aware that there's a different condition called diabetes insipidus, which is totally unrelated to 'sugar' diabetes) affects people within the family group in a combination of different ways.
When a younger brother was diagnosed, some 40-odd years ago, I couldn't fully appreciate why he seemed to be getting a certain amount of favouritism [favoritism] shown towards him by my parents ... my mother in particular, who was his prime carer. Having been diagnosed myself, almost 30 years ago, I now recognise [recognize] that this wasn't favouritism at all. I also appreciate how frightening being ill can affect close family members. (I've had quite severe frightening experiences, both for myself and members of my family ... several where my wife and children have been told to "prepare themselves for the worst" which, I can understand, makes people afraid to be left in my company by themselves ... just in case anything untoward happens.)
I'm not sure whether what I've said actually helps you to get inside the way it affects families, but I wish you the very best of luck in your health exam.
Yes, I do believe that society has shifted that course. An instance? One busy operating mother, in a newspaper piece full of fawning enthusiasm for her subculture, used to be stated to have "neglected out on having any time along with her youngsters". This is a lady who admittedly used to be simplest within the equal town as her children for approximately 14 days within the final yr. She certainly is a busineswoman who occurs to have children, as a substitute than a operating mother. I discovered it fascinating that the "cons" of her subculture had been framed in that means. SHE neglected out on some thing she would have loved. Not, "It used to be tough for the loved ones to manage the profession". It's all approximately self-gratification at the moment.