Hey everybody,
In honor of National Diabetes Month, the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance is asking for people to share their own stories of overcoming much of the ignorance surrounding this disease. Then, on monday, we’ll collect all of the stories and post them on our blog for everyone to see to coincide with Awareness Day.
The stories can be anything you want–a quick snipper of some “so wrong it’s hilarious” advice you were given, to a more serious story of dealing with doctors who assumed they knew what was best for you ( despite the fact they don’t have this disease), or something you’re doing to spread awareness. Anything goes.
I’ll start off ( and probably pop back with a few others later):
On the funnier side of things, one time a girlfriend of mine told her mom ( the night before I’d be coming over for dinner) that I happened to be a diabetic. When we showed up, it turned out her mother had been terrified of what to cook for me, had chopped out any sugar or carbs from the meal, and made sure everything was low fat, sugar, calorie etc. because " she didn’t want to put me in the hospital".
Kind of sweet, but wholly unnecessary ( and I made sure to explain to her that I wouldn’t go to the hosptial if there happened to be some sugar in my food lol).
So that’s my quick one, what about yours?
That's an awesome story. Thanks for sharing! And it's true, people think there are tons of things diabetics can't do, but it may just take a little longer.