Type 3 diabetes

According to ehow.com, (and several other sites) say it's when the brain stops or reduces the acceptance of insulin within the brain's cell receptors, aka brain diabetes.

According to wikipedia, it's gestational diabetes, or type 1 that is insulin-resistant, or type 2 that needs injected insulin.....

Over at naturalnews.com, they say it's a blood sugar spike when you are exposed to electrical pollution!


Type 4 diabetes is fibromyalgia?  A guy even wrote a book by that title.
 Type 4 diabetes

There is some talk online about type 5 which is obesity caused.

At dlife - they want you to believe that you are a type 3 diabetic if you are a spouse of a diabetic.

There's another website that claims spouses and loved ones are type 5 diabetics.

I sort of see the humor in all of this, but in reality, you either get it as a child, or as an adult.  Everything else is probably a subset of those 2.  But then.....when does a child become an adult?

My hubby acquired his diabetes at age 22.  He has always been diagnosed as type 2.  His pancreas does not produce any insulin.

But I just wanted to write about spouses and loved ones of diabetics.  There are those who love the concept of being classified as type 3 (or type 5) diabetic.  I get that.  But on the other hand, I don't get that.  I do not have diabetes.  I do not have a disease.  I do not require medicine, insulin, my blood sugars don't go high or low.  It's really very simple - I'm not a diabetic.

Is this a means for diabetics and the diabetic community to force spouses and loved ones to be more involved?  To smpathize with their plight?  "I'm type one and you have it too, you are type 3?"

Is this a way for them to get us more involved?  "I can't eat candy because I'm a type 2, and you shouldn't either because you are a type 3?"

I have to wonder!

I read a post on dlife about diabetes and your partner

I found an interesting article claiming that depression is high amoung spouses of diabetics.  I liked the description that we are not a couple, we are a threesome - him, me and diabetes.

But no matter how you say it.....I really don't like it when anyone suggests that I "have" to participate in this disease.  It is his, not mine.  If I'm here when he goes low, I'm more than happy to get a glucose tablet for him.  But I'm not about to sit home waiting to see if that's going to happen, so he has to learn how to find them, how to keep them in his pocket, how to test, how to recognize when he's going low.  It's 100% his job.  I'm just a lucky benefit...when I'm here!

It's not my job

And it's that healthy attitude that keeps me here.  It is something that I have had to learn.  It is something that most diabetics argue with.  It's not a family disease.  I'm not a type 3 diabetic.  I simply happen to be married to someone who has this disease.  It's his.  So maybe we should start asking the diabetic, "what's more important, your health or my sanity?"  I think I'd get a different answer depending on where his sugar is!  LOL!

DW