Melissa, Thanks for sharing this poem!! I can relate to this on MANY levels 
I was diagnosed at the age of 21. I was just about to graduate from college and had applied for a scholarship to spend a year abroad (in Hungary). Then came diabetes. Everyone (family and friends) assumed that meant that I couldn’t go.
But I decided that I would be FOREVER mad at my diabetes if that was the reason that I missed this experience! So I planned, planned, planned and got lots of support from my family and left 5 years later, I’m still here. I fell in love with the place and eventually my husband, a Hungarian.
Now we are planning to have children and I’m working on getting my A1c down to prepare for pregnancy. After my diagnosis, these were my two biggest fears: that I would have to give up the chance to live abroad and that I would not be able to have children.
I strongly feel that diabetes does NOT need to stand in the way of your dreams. You can live your dreams