Some fings wot i fort i new about DB, but actually didn't.

I'm one of those people who loves learning new things. Evidently this is a good trait when your spouse is living with DB.

I am also one of those people who is always discovering just how little in fact they do actually know.  I am still coming to terms with the revelation that Michael Crawford, the Phantom of the Opera is also the Michael Crawford who played Frank Spencer; I have just now re-checked this on Youtube but I still can't quite get my head round it.  As for thinking that tripe is a species of fish - that is another matter entirely.

Anyway, I digress.

A brief summary of a little of my un-knowledge regarding diabetes;
Hypos are caused by a type of diabetes where too much insulin is produced;
Diabetes means that you have to avoid sugar, honey, fructose etc (and only these things);
Carbohydrate reduction diets are a fad and only followed by people who are slightly unhinged;
The biggest risks of diabetes are hypos, amputations, and blindness - in that order;
Only really, really obese people develop type 2 diabetes;
Type 2 diabetes isn't that serious and is treated with tablets, much like a headache.

That reads like a grown up version of Things Kids Say. My black sense of humour is laughing darkly, whilst I'm silently begging forgiveness of the people whose illness I have badly misunderstood.

The scary thing is that I am not an unintelligent woman; I have a good degree from a good university, and work in an arena where information and accuracy are everything.  It worries me that as Jane Public, perhaps I am not alone in thinking such frankly loony thoughts.