what would you do? Umm play soccer and basketball and all the sports I can with out testing and my pump.
Where would you go? all over the world without the full bag of med supplies and even places without lots of med care.
What would you eat? umm I have eaten healthy for most of my life so prob alot of the same stuff.
Who would you visit? my family in Germany and the mission I went to in Jamaica before I was dx’ed
I understand. Yes, it would be so nice to not worry about what I am eating - that is why BIG list. Those are all my pre-diabetes faves that I would like to be able to eat with abandon until I am satisfied and now I never will again (maybe I can take a teeny bite of many of them but eat the whole thing - never).
Diabetes hasn’t entered my dreams yet - I am new and I am sure one day it will. I often still wake up and wonder “do I still have it?” or “did I just dream it all?” Unfortunately there still all my testing stuff - I feel like professional drug addict with all the poking and everything. I am sure people who use insulin shots even feel more like a drug addict.
I forgot about bagels and cream cheese - those were my faves for years with a big huge gormet coffee.
I remember about 30 some years ago seeing a recipe for a cream cheese stuffed french toast with lots of home made syrup! I put it away waiting for the day. Said when I was cured it would be the first thing I eat. I don’t think I have it anymore 
but I’m sure I could find one to replace it! To be honest, thinking about eating anything and everything kind of makes me ill. Leaving the house and not having to make sure I have all the crap, and enough of the crap, to see me through would be great. Can I have more days? I would go on a long trip.
omg id be SO happy! id play volleyball all day without having to worry about checking before i start, in the middle of playing, and after im done. oh yeah, and id probly eat something like a donut and enjoy not worrying about the effect it would have on my bg.
maybe i should take a day and make my friends and family be responsible for diabetes so i dont have to be…haha i think thats as close to a break as ill get.
My first answer to this question is, I don’t know! Diabetes is such a part of me that I would be sort of lost without it. It has changed my life in so many ways and allowed me to view life in such a different way. It has allowed me to grow up and has always been there. Diabetes, in so many ways for me, is my best friend as well as an enemy. So for me, I’d kind of miss it.
Still, I think that I would go to the coast, eat carby foods(including a giant chocolate shake!) without wanting to fall asleep thirty minutes later. I’d go swimming for as long as I want without pause, I would go horseback riding. I would have more fun doing things without pause than I would binging on food I can’t normally have because of blood sugar, seeing as I don’t eat much anyway!
Aside from that, part of me would be happy to have the responsibility of diabetes back at the end of said 24 hours. (:
I think I’d go to the airport and just get on a plane bound for some place beautiful. No baggage (OK, maybe a change of underwear), no worries about packing pump supplies, insulin, glucose tabs, etc. Then I would walk on the beach, or in the mountains, or wherever I wound up, not carrying anything with me except maybe a little water, until I got tired, that good kind of tired. I’d have a nice dinner with my husband, watching the sunset. Then I would sleep, really, really well 
Except if it was only for one day, I’d have to take all my diabetes “baggage” with me in case the flight home got cancelled. Bahhhh! It was a nice thought!
I tried to post this discussion, in EsTuDiabetes, the Latin American sister site for this community… And people are like outraged, that I would even ‘suggest’ that they ‘can’t’ do some things with Diabetes… or that I seem to still ‘daydream’ about candy and junk food. No one is being sincere, and honest, about how we much rather have a break, and do some things differently, without this disease. lol And they all tell me I need to just ‘be positive,’ and quit daydreaming… Man, I really just can’t relate at all to them. lol No one seems to want to discuss negative aspects there, ever… Like they all pretend to be happy, and only post Diabetic news… It’s a very boring forum. lol
What an interesting and honest answer. I admire your insight and sharing your feelings.
interesting. Do you think the difference is cultural?
Well, I’m not really sure… I am from the same culture (born and raised in Puerto Rico), yet I just can’t relate. I guess maybe they see it as ‘airing dirty laundry’ or something… I dunno. There’s a few women who just dominate the forum with their posts, and set the tone for all discussions… and it doesn’t lend itself for people to have differing views much…
I never really thought about it…I think I have been a daibetic for too long - it’s a way of life
The internet is the only place where I can post my true feelings of this disease.
Check out my discussion on Upbeat Diabetics in response to your pretending to be happy comment. :
24 hours Diabetes free, I’m not sure anything would change. Diabetes has never stopped me from doing anthing and is so tightly woven into my life and habits I’d probably just continue as nothing’s changed. Well, there be no injections but I’m not sure I’d stop testing.
Chinese take out food for dinner. Scuba diving class. Hmmm…that’s about all I can think of.
I would take my babies swimming all day!! We would lay out in the sun and swim. No pump,no sets, no low bs. OHHH thats my dream. To hang out with my babies and not worry about my D!!! Just to play on the floor with them without saying "watch out for mommy’s meds"
Oh gosh I am tearing up just thinking about it!!
that sounds so good.!!
I love this question!
I honestly would stay home and eat cupcakes and pizza and pasta allll day! lol
24 Hrs isn’t enough time for me to do what I would want to do which is take a trip somewhere and actually enjoy it. Either that or spend a day at an amusement park with my imaginary girlfriend…
"The real bummer would be next day- when it all came back!"
Sort of makes you wonder if it would be worth it.