This is true for me also Kerri! In the last year I feel like blogging and working on my book has helped me to re-embrace diabetes, the disease that I kept in the closet for over 20 years. Like you said, it was a lonely adolescence, feeling like I was the only one who was different and it has been so wonderfully eye-opening to "meet" all these regular, normal people just like me who share this disease through places like healthcentral, tudiabetes, sixuntilme and my own blog.
We are not alone anymore, good for you for having the insight and reaching out so many years ago...you paved the way for the rest of us! Thank you!
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Hi Kerri,
What a great post! I have a bit of a different perspective on life with diabetes because my situation is different. I don't look at diabetes as a disease so much as an obstacle I have to go through like many of the others in my family, a quasi right of passage if you will. As a type 2 diabetic with generations of family who were diabetic, I am dealing with something I knew would eventually get me. Granted, I have far better medical care than my older relatives, and I am much older than my parents were when they were both diagnosed. Mostly I did work to keep diabetes at bay. I watched my diet, carb and sugar intake as much as I could, and I am very active, but I am obese (another family trait) and with the obesity comes the eventuality of the associated issues. I am still ahead of the game if you look back at my family history. I am diabetic, but I am in control without any other issues. Well except arthritus from time to time :)
It is very interesting to read your blog, because it gives someone like me a different perspective of the disease. While changes in my lifestyle might have allowed me to escape diabetes to an extent, having type 1 diabetes is not a choice that can be avoided. How different your life must have been growing up with the disease, where my experiencelay mostly in watching my elderly relatives do what they had to do because the doctor told them they had "sugar."
I look forward to reading more about your experiences.
Vicki M