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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1642350" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>I'm an optimist but even on my most cheerful days I cannot bring myself to "like" being diabetic.</p><p></p><p>However I am grateful (hence my user name) that it turned out to be a disease which, for the time being, I can control entirely on my own -- at this stage my doctor is not much more than a very highly paid "coach"!! There are not too many chronic health conditions in that category. So many of them, such as various kinds of cancer, need considerable drug, radiological or surgical intervention with little scope for "self treatment" once the disease has been diagnosed.</p><p></p><p>At least for Type 2s, diabetes is a disease over which we have considerable "agency" (in my case, 100 percent "agency"). The only "agency" some cancer patients have is that nebulous psychological process that is called "fighting the disease." If you are an atheist and believer in conventional science (as I am), that phrase rings really hollow.</p><p></p><p>On the bad days, I wake up thinking: "Why me? I haven't led a perfect life but I see plenty of people with far worse life habits than mine and they didn't develop diabetes." Or, I wake up thinking: "You did this to yourself. A bit of daily exercise, a bit less beer, and fewer of those workaholic overnight computer programming sessions and maybe you could have avoided it altogether."</p><p></p><p>The silly "blame game" all over again. I know that we are supposed to go through a linear set of "stages" starting with "denial" and so forth, but in my case it is more like a circle rather than a straight line.</p><p></p><p>I do admire [USER=36344]@Chowie[/USER] for being able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Perhaps I will get there some day too....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1642350, member: 438800"] I'm an optimist but even on my most cheerful days I cannot bring myself to "like" being diabetic. However I am grateful (hence my user name) that it turned out to be a disease which, for the time being, I can control entirely on my own -- at this stage my doctor is not much more than a very highly paid "coach"!! There are not too many chronic health conditions in that category. So many of them, such as various kinds of cancer, need considerable drug, radiological or surgical intervention with little scope for "self treatment" once the disease has been diagnosed. At least for Type 2s, diabetes is a disease over which we have considerable "agency" (in my case, 100 percent "agency"). The only "agency" some cancer patients have is that nebulous psychological process that is called "fighting the disease." If you are an atheist and believer in conventional science (as I am), that phrase rings really hollow. On the bad days, I wake up thinking: "Why me? I haven't led a perfect life but I see plenty of people with far worse life habits than mine and they didn't develop diabetes." Or, I wake up thinking: "You did this to yourself. A bit of daily exercise, a bit less beer, and fewer of those workaholic overnight computer programming sessions and maybe you could have avoided it altogether." The silly "blame game" all over again. I know that we are supposed to go through a linear set of "stages" starting with "denial" and so forth, but in my case it is more like a circle rather than a straight line. I do admire [USER=36344]@Chowie[/USER] for being able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear:). Perhaps I will get there some day too.... [/QUOTE]
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