Sometimes I think that I’ll write a book called Diabetes is my Lemonade. While diabetes is a condition that can be a lemon full of complications if you let it, you can transform it into the most tasty and healthy lemonade.

Diabetes is the one chronic condition that gives you a choice between lemons and lemonade. That makes diabetes empowering for us.

Personally, I have three chronic conditions that I am essentially powerless to deal with. My doctors are totally in charge of them.

My urologist...