my story: type 2
For 36-year-old
Charmain Etnasios,
deciding to have
bariatric surgery
in 2017 was life
changing – in more
ways than one
I was diagnosed with type 2
seven years ago, when I was
29, and to be honest, it didn’t
come as much of a surprise.
For me, and my brother George,
diabetes was like pulling the
bad-luck card in the genetic
lottery. My dad has type 2, as
did most of our aunts and uncles
on both sides, our grandparents
and a few of our cousins.
So I always knew I was
at an increased risk. Plus,
I’d always been overweight.
For the most part it was a
gradual thing, creeping on
TYPE^2 slowly year after year.DECISION OF A
lifetime