Thank you. And thanks for sharing. Go and have your beer this year you have made it this far enjoy one.
Lol indeed. I know I have had a few today.
Wow, 3 dates. Staying home and just being sounds good.
My wife is Korean and her and her mom both use the Julian calendar however her dad uses the Korean style lunar calendar so his birthday moves around? For a long time, I have had trouble remembering the year of dx, either 84 or 85 but it gets mixed up with graduation from high school, going to college and other monumental events? I think it was *probably* 84 and I remember the weather was dreary but that's about it.
Another East Asian way of looking at it would be depicted in "The Sea of Fertility" by Yukio Mishima. It's 4 books but the ending took my breath away. I don't want to post a spoiler though!
I mark the date by purchasing something special for myself, nothing too expensive, and going out to lunch with my best buddy. Unfortunately it is also my husband’s birthday, so he doesn’t want any mention of my diagnosis on his birthday. shrug As if I bake myself a cake and gorge.
That’s the way to do it! 
Have fun and laugh! Happy B-day to you both!
Same here, Natalie. I was originally mis-diagnosed as type 2 on July 28, 2007. Then I started suspecting something was amiss around December 2008, started on insulin in February 2009, figured it was highly probable I was LADA/Type 1 sometime in March and had it "officially confirmed" by an endo in May. So out of that whole mess I feel two distinct anniversaries, 7/07 and 2/09. My treatment, attitude and whole concept of having diabetes were radically different during those times. I'm certainly not saying this is true of all Type 2's but for me that version of my diabetes took the form of testing 2x a day, taking oral meds and not thinking any more about it. (I thought I ate pretty healthy and I did...just not for a diabetic... as a vegetarian I ate lots of pasta and rice. But my numbers were good so I didn't think any more about it. When my numbers started to rise and I began questioning my diagnosis, I embarked on a voyage of education, discovery and self management. Very different diabetic identity. So my anniversary is still 7/28/07 because that is when my voyage with diabetes began. But as I get ready to start yet another chapter of my D - starting on a pump, I find myself reflecting more on the journey that began just short of 2 years ago with my re-diagnosis and use of insulin.
All that to say I'm not particularly invested in my anniversary, and unlike people who have survived and flourished remarkable decades with diabetes, I don't see a lot to celebrate. That doesn't mean it hasn't changed my life. If nothing else it makes it unlikely I'll get Alzheimers because I have had to work my brain so hard in my late 50s and early 60s learning about D and its management!
Happy D-anniversary, Natalie. No snow in the Bay Area, but rain and gloom and I am spending this weekend indoors under the tree with MY cuddly feline, studying my pumping books and manuals and preparing my online courses for the Spring Semester.
Happy New Year to all, I hope this year your Diabetes sits like a well behaved child in the back of the class while you live your lives happy, healthy and joyous up front!
Oh now I want no I have to read it now.“The Sea of Fertility” and its 4 books?
I do too. I will not let it be a down day for me b/c look what I got on that day 15 years later!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_of_Fertility. He finished it and marched off to parliament with his gang to take over Japan (this in 1970…) and committed seppuku, another example of something worse than diabetes!
Thanks Trudy - that is a great idea!