If you can manage diabetes, there's not much you can't do, once you set your mind to it.
i am buoyed up by your positivity, but i don't begrudge anyone their reality. maybe it is easier for me to hear both sides since i am prediabetic only at this point.
for some people anger is an emotion that motivates them to fight.
:) x 2
bec: i am so happy that you are now getting so many responses -well positive ones anyway- :) i hope that you your self are still finding the positive side to diabetes in your life. :)
2 1/2 years late on the conversation, but I just gotta pick at one of my favorite nits: "Hate" is a pretty strong term to me. The kinds of things I "hate" are child molesters, sadists that inflict pain and torture on animals or (God forbid) people, you know, stuff like that.
I don't hate diabetes any more than I "hate" my poor eyesight, hearing impairment due to otosclerosis, or any number of other health issues. Diabetes is the worst of them all, and I am really annoyed by it, exhausted by it, angered by it. I could list another dozen negative adjectives.
Hate, though, seems so misplaced to me.
Absolutely. And thanks. I have no regrets or misgivings. Each step before now brought me here.
I was in a car that was struck buy a train (sole survivor), I'm a Vietnam Veteran, I'm a engineer, some of my designs have been patented and some featured on the Discovery channels documentary program Mega Machines. I have two wonderful children, many grand children, I have survived a major organ transplant and liver cancer (Haptic cellar carcinoma)....and most of this I did while managing my BG...completely insulin dependent, I'm a T1D....Diabetes does not define my life and it will not be part of my legacy...I do not believe the Bete's has changed my destiny, I know it has a major impact on some individuals, some individuals get knocked off their path very easily and others cannot be knocked of their path.
I think your original statement is very true but you could replace the Bete's with just about anything and still arrive at the same destination or just about anything could have caused your life to take a completely different path...JMHO
I agree and disagree. Replacing Diabetes with anything would not be relevant to a forum about Diabetes. But I thank you for your positivity. Each diabetic struggles (or not) in a different way because the disease is unique to the individual.
Got a different one for you, Bec.
One of the positives for me of diabetes is the tech. I love technology, work in the tech industry, have an engineering background (although I'm a management drone these days, COO of our small company).
The Omnipod and Dexcom are interesting toys to a person like me. Understanding how my body reacts to food and insulin, then taking on the challenge of trying to be "gluconormal" with these devices is interesting and fun (when it's not annoying and intrusive, as it is sometimes).