How many times a day do you think about diabetes?

When it comes down to it, most of the time I forget I have diabetes.

It has been such a big part of my life that it is secound nature. It is just not something that you think about. Newly diagnosed, we all couldn't get it off our minds: What time do I do this, how much do I give, can I have this?

For me and most of you probably, I count carbs in my head and give insulin accordingly. I recently kept a log. I wrote in this log, for everytime I checked my blood, gave insulin, or did anything diabetes-related. I also kept a secound log with all my daily work, like work, homework, and appointments.

On the diabetes log I had filled in more than 5 pages in one week. In the other log, my "work log," i filled in 2 to 3 pages. I was surprised that the "diabetes log" was so much longer then the "work log". But yet I thought more about my daily work task than my diabetes.

I do so much more work for diabetes and still tend to forget it. Why is that? I think it is because we are so accepting of our diabetes. We also see it as less work even though it is more work.

1. Do you forget you have diabetes?

2. Do you consider diabetes work just like school work?

3. How do you feel about diabetes?

Think about it!