I was diagnosed with diabetes on March 6, 1999; and every year on that day, my family and I celebrate my diabetes birthday. Diabetes may not be a happy or easy disease, but if we all have to live with it every day why not celebrate it! We always do something fun to celebrate getting through another hard year of diabetes. I hit a decade this year and couldn't be prouder to have made it this far. If you look at diabetes as this giant black cloud constantly hovering over your life then you are letting your diabetes control you. Being positive and optomisitic about it will help you to keep control and feel better about having to be burdened with it. I'm not going to lie, diabetes absolutely sucks; but looking at it with a smile will help. By celebrating the anniversary of diagnosis puts it in a more positive light that may help it suck a little less. Just remember... You control diabetes, diabetes doesn't control you....