If anyone wants to add something they're happy with themselves about today, please feel free ... I thought it might give us some focus on those teeny weeny little achievements that make a big difference to how we feel ...
I'm happy with myself today because I drove my car to the mechanics and then I walked quite a long way to my local shopping centre, where I walked round a few shops, carrying a couple of light shopping bags. I then went into a cafe and had an all day breakfast of 2 eggs, 1 bacon, beans, 1 tomato and after that I managed another short walk around another shop ... and I did all that and only got a wee bit breathless.
I can't tell you how long it is since I've been able to walk and carry a bit of shopping, even carrying as little as a couple bananas and oranges would have me breathless and looking for somewhere to sit down. So today is cause for celebration for me. My breathing has been awful for the past couple of years and even with inhalers, it wasn't improving and I'd resigned myself to it staying that way and ending up in a wheelchair soon. I was never happy with the diagnosis of 'asthma', and I think I was right.
As my blood sugar is becoming more stable, my breathing is improving and therefore, my ability to exercise and of course ... the awful fatigue that was soooooooooooooooo depressing. So although perhaps diabetes itself can't be cured, many of the symptoms and complications can be reversed if we get that all important diagnosis in the first place.
I'd wholeheartedly encourage any newly diagnosed T2 diabetic not to give up hope of vast improvement in a short time, if you get your head round diet and testing. It's not a cure but it can give rapid and very real results.
Honestly, if I could skip in the air and click my heels together at the moment, that's what I'd do ... but for now ... I'm just so happy that I could walk around my local shops like a normal person again.
I'm happy with myself today because I drove my car to the mechanics and then I walked quite a long way to my local shopping centre, where I walked round a few shops, carrying a couple of light shopping bags. I then went into a cafe and had an all day breakfast of 2 eggs, 1 bacon, beans, 1 tomato and after that I managed another short walk around another shop ... and I did all that and only got a wee bit breathless.
I can't tell you how long it is since I've been able to walk and carry a bit of shopping, even carrying as little as a couple bananas and oranges would have me breathless and looking for somewhere to sit down. So today is cause for celebration for me. My breathing has been awful for the past couple of years and even with inhalers, it wasn't improving and I'd resigned myself to it staying that way and ending up in a wheelchair soon. I was never happy with the diagnosis of 'asthma', and I think I was right.
As my blood sugar is becoming more stable, my breathing is improving and therefore, my ability to exercise and of course ... the awful fatigue that was soooooooooooooooo depressing. So although perhaps diabetes itself can't be cured, many of the symptoms and complications can be reversed if we get that all important diagnosis in the first place.
I'd wholeheartedly encourage any newly diagnosed T2 diabetic not to give up hope of vast improvement in a short time, if you get your head round diet and testing. It's not a cure but it can give rapid and very real results.
Honestly, if I could skip in the air and click my heels together at the moment, that's what I'd do ... but for now ... I'm just so happy that I could walk around my local shops like a normal person again.
