diabetes

Diabetes is something I care very deeply about. I have been trying to live with this complicated affliction for decades and it can be an exhausting battle. One of the things that is much worse than living with and trying to treat diabetes is living with it without even knowing you have it.

Today is World Diabetes Day. Yeah diabetes! I think not. Diabetes does not deserve a cheer but the medicines that help us diabetics daily do deserve a cheer, as do the medical professionals, and pharmacy employees who help us get through each day. Diabetes sucks and there is no other way to put it.

You are an important part of my life and I like to think of us as friends. I tend to share everything with you because I trust you and I feel if I go through something, there is someone else going through the same thing and maybe what I have learned can be of some help.

If it weren't for what happened on this date in 1921 I would not be around today and neither would many many other people. Insulin was first discovered on this date 95 years ago and I need it every single day. I am, unfortunately, an insulin dependent diabetic.

Today is National Diabetes Association Alert Day. This is a great opportunity to educate yourself, make a doctor appointment and make sure you are not on the path to diabetes and to do something about it if you are. Diabetes is a silent killer that effects so many people but can be controlled if you educate yourself and learn how to live with it.

I am a diabetic. I hate it with the intensity of 10,000 suns but it is something I have to deal with all day, every day. It is such a complicated and confusing disease. I get tired of constantly pricking my finger to check blood sugar levels.