Highs and lows

[therower]

Today's highs.........
Waking on my 54 th birthday to my beautiful wife, a cup of coffee in bed and birthday presents ( socks this year )
Full English breakfast out, the works, fried bread, bacon, mushrooms, beans, eggs ,toast, hash browns and a latte.
Daughter, son in law and most importantly the 2 lights of my life. Granddaughter and Grandson both " helping " me to open more presents ( socks again).

Today's lows...........
Leicester Tigers losing to Saracens.
A phone call from my sister late this afternoon to tell me her father, my step father was in our local LOROS hospice ( charity run end of life hospice) . I went to comfort my sister and say goodbye to a man who played a huge part in my life. I fear he will pass shortly.

Why have I posted this?

Not for comments or sympathy.

There are highs and lows, not just on glucose monitors, but everywhere in life.

Take care all and remember it's not all about diabetes.

 

[Diakat]

High - getting a very excited child to bed tonight.

Low - the A303 on the drive to granny!

Happy birthday, if I'd known I'd have sent socks.

 

[therower]

@Diakat . Please no more socks!!!!!!!!!!!.

Have a great " santa " day tomorrow.

 

[Scott-C]

Re your stepfather, @therower , my aunt died recently at 80 from a heart attack. My dad is a bit wound up about this - his dad died from a heart attack, then his sister, he had a stent operation a while ago.

Both my folks are quite active for their ages - both approaching 80 - mum still tends her garden, dad potters around on his boat - but I get the sense that they're both aware of their impending mortality.

I get a sense also that they've come to terms with that, and all they want to know is that their kin, me at 50, my sister at 46, and my sister's kids at around 20 are happy in their lives. I've made a point of reassuring them that I'm happy in my job, my T1 isn't causing me any grief etc.

I've not thought a lot about my eventual death, I'm planning on sticking around for a while, but I know that I'll be ok with it if I know that those close to me are doing ok. That's all that anyone wants: knowing that when they check out, those close to them are safe and well.

 

[therower]

Hi @Scott-C . Wise words indeed. Yesterday wasn't about me and my diabetes.
As you say it's about so much more. When I went to see him, bearing in mind I haven't seen him for a long time and things in the past were not idyllic at times, I just felt he had a right to know certain things, untold feelings I guess.
I reminisced about the old times and for a short space of time he opened his eyes and it felt like he wanted squeeze my hand and somehow communicate. I'll take it as positive and hope that in those few moments he realised how much of an impact he had had in my early life. Impacts that have made me who I am. Impacts I am eternally grateful for.

A Merry Christmas to you and all your family.