If course the DOC - in all its forms. And thanks to the discipline I am healthier than I probably would have been without D. But, one of the things (alert: shallow person writing here) I look better than the women with whom I went to college in the early-mid 70’s. Hey whatever works!
My favorite thing about diabetes is that it responds to brain-power.
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The food I eat is such better quality after going low carb. I eat good meat and cheese for snacks instead of chips or cookies. I eat so well and my meals are so much more satisfying than before. I also use the D as an excuse to buy quality, low carb food which can be a little pricier than a box of mac and cheese.
Also, I was home sick today with a UTI and some horrible blood sugars. I giggled just a little when I told my mom I was feeling better but was exhausted from being high all day. Because of the D I’m able to find humor in horrible situations and laugh at myself. After injecting Lantus into my muscle on accident (I think that’s what happened) I got scary low. I was carrying cookies down the stairs and dropped them, so I started crying and ate my cookies off the floor while sitting on the stairs. It was literally a medical emergency but after the fact I laughed at how ridiculous the entire situation was. And the floor cookies where the best cookies I had ever eaten!
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Wait, I have something else! My ex was a jerk about my D. I left him for a ton of reasons, but that was definitely a major one. Had I not left him, I wouldn’t be with my new man who treats me amazingly, and at the very least isn’t totally freaked out by anything being an RN.
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I’m not dead yet. Other than that—there is nothing I like about diabetes…
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all of the friends i made! Camp, TuD and twitter FTW!
Three things:
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I love when I beat NDR’s (non-diabetic runners) in a race!
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I love the resolve it has given me to “try”. Even if I fail - like the insulin pump I tried to make (with remote control airplane parts, mechanical pencil parts, and syringes). That project ended with me spilling my blood all over the kitchen floor.
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I love the courage it has given me. Fear no longer holds sway over me.
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That my son was born in 2014, not 1914. I was watching “The Crown” yesterday and realizing that even if my son were the King of England, 100 years ago he would be dead. I felt incredibly grateful that we got to meet this amazing little person and get to know him better despite his disease, and that even ordinary people with this disease can survive and thrive nowadays.
But I’m with @rgcainmd and others: the silver linings do not makeup for the giant turd sandwich that is my son facing a lifelong, life-threatening, chronic condition from age 2. I would much rather him not have the disease at all.
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All the respect in the world to Tia_G and rgcainmd and my mom and to the other moms of diabetics. I can’t even imagine the challenge of having a child with it…
The mom’s have it tougher than the diabetics. Like when my son got stung by hornets, I wished so much it was me instead of him. Damn you bees! Sting me, not him! Sting me, not him! But they didn’t listen, they just kept stinging him. 
I imagine it’s like that for you everyday.
I think you women have it tougher than I do. I can only imagine how difficult it is. Hang tough, ladies! Respect!
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That’s a “you gotta be kidding”.
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Kind of funny, miss it now; my well meaning mother would buy sara-lee cinnamon coffee cakes every once in a while after my DX and say “you can have one, you used to love them!” So I always said she was trying to kill me with kindness. Since she passed almost 10 years ago, one of my best friends who now has an Italian restaurant always tries to peddle his latest desert to me and and says “you can have a little once in while now that you have the pump” so the torch of killing me with kindness has been passed on!
That sounds exactly like something I’d do. And then do again.
Discipline, balance and my teacher. I could go on and on about it’s gifts! I would have died from bulimia 20 years ago if i had not been dx at 18. 
Social payments, free public transport, etc. In another matter diabetes is sucks. Although over 12 years of illness, I do not have diabetes complications, even traces from injections are not visible, diabetes is really sucks. You always have to hide your injections; to carry an Insulin Pen which is longer than any pocket. And what it’s like to say to any girl “I’m a diabetic”. You always feel yourself like a freak. Nope, no disease can not be better than to be healthy, never. People must to be the realists and stop to look for a small amount of good in their illnesses.
Sorry, turning on old-man preachy font here…Any girl who is not interested in you because you are a diabetic, is not the right one. Think of it like this: If nothing else, it is possible that the disease may save you from being with the wrong girl.
You can hide them if you want, but you don’t have to. LOUD AND PROUD. 
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Discovered Turmeric. I see a lowering in BG. But that is not it. My mood seems elevated. And I can say adding it to my cooking was the only dietary change.
Of course the meds I take have been effective too
Oh, Eddie2, it’s not the matter of what people think of me. I almost do not care about others opinion. In fact, it is the matter how I feel.
I understand now what you are saying. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
You’re kidding right? There is nothing good or fav about diabetes and there never will be. There is no rule for the forum if you’re talking about this forum overall.
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Ha! Love your attitude!