いま、1型糖尿病は
2010年01月08日
He grew up in Austria and is now a German. A German nurse specialized in diabetes education attending the annual meeting told me that people in Germany would not tell others willingly if they have type 1 diabetes and would often hide it. The nurse said it was wonderful that he announced to the public that "he has type 1 diabetes" in such a cultural environment.
Of course, he may have been able to make it public because he won the gold medal. However, if people learn before the Olympics that he has type 1 diabetes, they, especially the media may focus too much on that part of the story instead of covering his true weight lifting ability and competing against leading weightlifters. That may be what he would not have liked. I am sure he would be happy to be interviewed at any time if it was about weight lifting.
Mr. Iwata, pitcher of Hanshin Tigers also has diabetes. He achieved wonderful results in 2008. He was also selected as a member of the national team for the last World Baseball Classic (WBC), and the Japan team's victory at WBC is still fresh in out minds. You probably have seen his brave figure on a poster stuck on the wall of your clinic. I sometimes see him pitching on TV. He really has earnest eyes showing that he is a man of no compromise.
He probably has no reluctance to send cheers to diabetic patients and would be more than happy to support some kind of event for such patients during baseball off-season if time allows.
Our outpatient clinic also has young type 1 diabetes patients including national team athletes and grade and high schoolers who regularly win on prefectural tournaments. They are all fine, laid-back young people.
Some years ago, I met Mr. Eiichi Omura, aerobics performer. He too is such a fine young man.
They simply love weight lifting, baseball or aerobics and have come to realize that they seem to have a talent in such sport and have been working single-mindedly on the sport. And they merely happened to have type 1 diabetes.
They are working day in, day out in order to accomplish good results in games/tournaments and to instantly bring out their best. They have told me that they cannot perform well and lack sharpness in their movements when they are hyperglycemic. I was convinced when I heard that.
You wonder how they control their blood glucose? It varies. Each of them has encountered various situations and has come to learn how to control it based on their experience. I would give advice when they have a difficult time managing their blood glucose, but I basically have them find their own way to control it.
©2010 Yasuko Uchigata
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