Diabetes Type 1 'Why My Child' transcript
Joanne - We've got diabetes on both side of our family. It's not type 1 diabetes. Relatives of our have all been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
Anton and Galena - My father was diagnosed when he was about 63 years old.
Abbie, Sally and John - Our grandmother had it. Which we found out after we found out that Abbie had it.
Janine and Justin - Justin was the first one in our family to have diabetes.
George and Betty - We were asked to go have tests to find out where it came from. About two weeks after that, we were told that one other member had it.
Alison - My grandfather was a diabetic, but I never knew my grandfather.
Tyeli and Digby - There may have been people in either Tyeli's birth mother or father's families who had diabetes, but we don't have any of that information.
Alison - My dad probably took it a bit hard, in that he may have thought it came from his side of the family and that it's his fault, or something like that. He probably took it the worst. It was a shock for mum. I think both your parents take it the worst. They feel guilty that they should've picked it up earlier and known what the symptoms were.
