stevethehalibut
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Hello fellow diabetics!
Nice to be part of a group of like minds (I would say bodies but none of us are the same).
No-one but a diabetic can understand what a remarkably complex, challenging, sometimes lonely and personal condition this is - like sailing on a little boat with a pretty **** sail on sometimes stormy seas that toss you all around. And like the ocean when the waters are good you feel a great life-force which few others can appreciate. It's all light and shade with diabetes.
I am now 44 (can't believe it) but was diagnosed at the tender age of 14 months. And I'm still trying to get it right! I've never known life without diabetes and in a way I am lucky - those diagnosed later in life have to cope with such a wrench from what they know. Touch wood I have few "complications" (retinopathy mainly) for someone with 43 years under their belt. I'm sure there's some bad stuff to come but let's not think about that.
I don't know how others feel but for me diabetes is a mixed blessing - yes it's **** when things go wrong (which they often do) but I also feel diabetics have a greater knowledge of our own bodies, of how food impacts us and the affect that life has on us - and we have unique relationships with those around us. I feel it has given me a different look on life, philosophically accepting what might come down the line but also driven to the utmost to try and get it right. I used to try and beat it by seeing it was a hindrance and fighting against it. But in my older years I have started to embrace it and accept it as a part of myself that's gonna hang around me for a good while yet. And that's fine. I've seen new technologies come in, new practices in self-management and a new understanding of food that I am really thankful for. Every time a new thing comes out (like the pump and more recently the FreeStyle Libre) my life gets easier/control gets a little better and that gives me hope.
And now I've discovered this wealth of people, experiences and information that the forum has to offer.
So there's another thing to be thankful for
Nice to be part of a group of like minds (I would say bodies but none of us are the same).
No-one but a diabetic can understand what a remarkably complex, challenging, sometimes lonely and personal condition this is - like sailing on a little boat with a pretty **** sail on sometimes stormy seas that toss you all around. And like the ocean when the waters are good you feel a great life-force which few others can appreciate. It's all light and shade with diabetes.

I am now 44 (can't believe it) but was diagnosed at the tender age of 14 months. And I'm still trying to get it right! I've never known life without diabetes and in a way I am lucky - those diagnosed later in life have to cope with such a wrench from what they know. Touch wood I have few "complications" (retinopathy mainly) for someone with 43 years under their belt. I'm sure there's some bad stuff to come but let's not think about that.
I don't know how others feel but for me diabetes is a mixed blessing - yes it's **** when things go wrong (which they often do) but I also feel diabetics have a greater knowledge of our own bodies, of how food impacts us and the affect that life has on us - and we have unique relationships with those around us. I feel it has given me a different look on life, philosophically accepting what might come down the line but also driven to the utmost to try and get it right. I used to try and beat it by seeing it was a hindrance and fighting against it. But in my older years I have started to embrace it and accept it as a part of myself that's gonna hang around me for a good while yet. And that's fine. I've seen new technologies come in, new practices in self-management and a new understanding of food that I am really thankful for. Every time a new thing comes out (like the pump and more recently the FreeStyle Libre) my life gets easier/control gets a little better and that gives me hope.
And now I've discovered this wealth of people, experiences and information that the forum has to offer.
So there's another thing to be thankful for
