I am like an open book on certain things and I have never kept secrets from my family so I discuss almost everything. I suppose this invites criticism but it also provides a sounding board which, for me, has always been a useful tool in trying to understand stuff. We all have coping mechanisms, I suppose. And besides, IRL, I could talk the hind leg off of a wooden donkey.One of the first things that I learned after being diagnosed was not to discuss it. I talk about it with 3 people in my life. I certainly have never mentioned it on facebook. It's simply not worth the grief.
I am like an open book on certain things "QUOTE]
I also told people, not just family but also at work, it helped me to cope with the diagnosis, gave me an incentive to do something about my diet and exercise but more importantly to keep with it. It also helped to explain why I was a little more serious than usual. Now, when I am tempted not to go for a walk someone will comment that I am the 'walker in the team' so I feel I have to go even for a short time, someone who has not seen me for a few weeks comments how elegant I look and I grow a couple of inches inside. In life it is not the repeated falling that counts but the repeated getting up and giving it another go. The only time you 'fail' is the day that you don't get up and try again. If necessary painting on a smile, (women have an advantage there with putting on some lippy it helps to smile!) and you will soon find that the smile becomes genuine. Small steps and being patient with yourself help, no-one said that perfection was achieved overnight or even first time. When someone has been an 'overnight success' a little look at their background shows that there is years of hard work behind them. You are doing just fine, doing the best you can at the moment. Everyday is another clean sheet and has its own successes, focus on what goes right.
It's good that you got/get support. You are lucky. Some of us learned the hard way to keep our mouths shut.
It is a strange thing but at the one month stage from dx I had lowered my A1c from 98 to 73. I was still under no illusion that was still very high but I looked at the drop and I was chuffed. [snip]
I suppose what came next shows my nature in that three months later my A1c came out at 43....
So far that was the only help that was offered to me. I have a few friends who are diabetic who were better and gave me space to adjust. Which is what I needed in the start.
I am like an open book on certain things and I have never kept secrets from my family so I discuss almost everything. I suppose this invites criticism but it also provides a sounding board which, for me, has always been a useful tool in trying to understand stuff. We all have coping mechanisms, I suppose. And besides, IRL, I could talk the hind leg off of a wooden donkey.
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