I wanted to ask y'all: what motivates you to keep fighting the fight? It's not easy...so, what keeps you kicking?
Some journalist reportedly asked Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich "how could you live under Stalinism" to which he replied "it was better than the alternative"
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My family!
Even though diabetes is absolutely terrible, I know that this is an aspect of my life I have control over. So many other things could be going wrong outside of my control, but I can predict my diabetes fairly closely. When my parents are fighting, I have no control over it. There is no "If I do ______, then they will ______" On the other hand, if my bloodsugar is 250, I know I can change it for the better.
I know this seems like a stupid reason, but I feel that I can't let something bad happen to me if I see it coming. I'm too competitive to let it slip past my defenses.
I'm afraid of dying a premature death
No brainer, my answer ( ALL YOU OTHER DIABETICS WHO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT )
I'm OCD, so this is the disease for me. Also, it's a fight I can win a lot of the time, it doesn't require chemotherapy or radiation, or anything that's worse for me than the disease itself.
Yes, I think fear of complications is my motivation.
I was diagnosed in DKA and the memory of me in the ICU will stay with me for a very long time. Needles and tubes coming out of every part of me, including bits where I didn't know it was possible to have needles and tubes protruding (like the tube they sewed into my neck). I was lucky to make a full recovery but I have seen what high blood sugars can do in a classic T1 situation, plus growing up, the majority of people I knew with T2 died young.
All of that keeps me kicking, plus OCD is actually a great help.
I accepted this challenge at a very young age. I was 3yo. I am now 57 and still going strong. It has never stopped me from doing anything. I have a wonderfull wife, a daughter (also T1), and a son. I hunt deer (live for this every fall), fish in rivers, play golf, go tent camping. You name it and I probably have tried it. I do not have diabetes in my mind just an inconvienience.
At first it was my parents & g-parents then it was my husband then my kids. Now it's my g-kids.
I work in a hospital in health care and I see what the outcome is for non compliant diabetics.
Reversing the damage I have allowed by ignoring my symptoms for so long. Being able to live a normal life again. Enjoying my wife and family. I've come a long way in one year. I have a lot of work left to do. And, I know it is up to me.
My stubbornness
I am way too stubborn to accept that anyone or ANYTHING can control me...My mother told me she knew if she ever got a call in the middle of the night saying I was in jail she knew whatever I did was my idea because no one can persuade me to do anything I didnt want to do. Also I dont believe in limitations, only in my own will power...And I refuse to let diabetes define me completely, its only part of the reason I am awesome! ;-)
Having seen my 2 Brothers and other Relatives go through the complications (especially my older Brother) and then their deaths. Heartbreaking! :( It was mainly because of him and my 2 Aunts, that I started getting back on track in 1999 and learning more about what I needed to do to enable myself to live longer and to enjoy a Better Life. I regret that they didn't have access to the DOC.
I do not enjoy feeling Bad.
Athough my Hubby doesn't mind helping me( cuz he certainly has and does), I prefer to do all that I can to look after myself. I own my diseases/conditions. Not anyone else.
My motivation is easy to start with spite towards my mother who does not take good care of her T-1 Diabetes . But it has since moved onto a mix of fear of my daughters developing T-1 and wanting to show a better example. I have my moments of doubt and want to screw it Diabetes will be listed someplace on my death cert but then I think of my girls and how not only do I want to show them a good example I need to. I also have not let anything else drag me down and refuse to let anything but me to decide when I am beat.
eeek, I am certain I am non-compliant!!
What motivates me is my belief that I can have an awesome life or a crappy one, and if I choose awesome (which I do), then I have to work for it.
Primarily because I don't want to live with disabilities. In a way, it's difficult to work so hard to prevent a condition which may never happen anyway, but I don't want to take the chance. And I know full well that if I go out of control, the result isn't pretty -- having a coma wasn't fun. And, after 20 years, I've sort of forgotten what life without diabetes is, anyway, except when I see angel food cake, LOL!!