‘I’ve got diabetes and I
have to deal with it’
Jerry Gore’s an inspiring guy: motivational speaker, mountain climber and a
man who moved his family to France to follow his heart. He’s seen active service
as a Royal Marine, yet neither combat nor climbing have presented him with the
toughest challenge of his life. That title is reserved for his type 1 diabetes.
‘Managing my diabetes is the hardest thing car in front: my vision had gone fuzzy.’ Jerry’s happened to him. The news acted as a catalyst,
I’ve ever done,’ Jerry says. ‘It’s relentless, and wife Jackie, an ex-paramedic, immediately prompting a family move to France where
it’s physically and mentally hard on everyone suggested type 1 and told Jerry to see his Jerry and Jackie now run AlpBase, offering
around you.’ GP. ‘My GP was also a mountain climber,’ active holidays for skiers, climbers, walkers and
Jerry was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes says Jerry, ‘and he told me I’d simply been mountain bikers, with chalet accommodation.
shortly before his 40th birthday, on 31 January overdoing it. But I was more scared of my wife ‘In that sense, the diagnosis improved my life
2001. ‘I was taking exams and I felt very tired, than I was of him, so I demanded a blood test!’ and my family’s life,’ he says. ‘The news pushed
even though I’m usually a high-energy person,’ Sure enough, Jerry’s blood test diagnosed type 1. me to make the change. It hasn’t affected
he recalls. ‘I’d lost weight, but I put both of ‘I’d had worse news in my life, but not much,’ my rock climbing, either. But you do have
those things down to the stress of my studies. Jerry admits. to be disciplined in your management of the
I remember driving home from an exam and Looking back, Jerry says now that condition if you want to make a success of it.
being unable to see the number plate of the his diagnosis was the best thing that ever It’s a case of having a mature attitude towards
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