ANSWER TO SARA

~ I am under the understanding that type one diabetes is not a result of anything you did or did not do. Often it could be hereditary but it could happen otherwise as well. No body in my family has diabetes, not my grandparents or any one that I ever knew to have it. I think that when that is the case like it is with you and me that the doctors believe it is the result of a virus that attacks the pancreas. Type two diabetes on the other hand could also be hereditary, but could be a result of ones health, primarily obesity. In either case type two diabetics can more easily care for their diabetes with proper diet and exercise and with tat they can often but not always prevent it as well.

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As a child

~ When I was first diagnosed my parents, primarily my mother would come to school each day before lunch to check my sugar and take my insulin with me. At the begging it was kind of fine. I personally never minded the needles or any of that stuff, and heck I had no idea what it meant to be diabetic so it also didn’t scare me. What started to bother me was not that I as different from the other kids, but that I had to do things differently. Nobody made fun of me and my family and I never hid it, which by the way I think is the smartest way about it, but that is an entirely different discussion to be had. I hated the fact that I needed to leave the classroom and go to the burse to check my sugar everyday before I could eat and before I could go to recess, I hated the fact that I couldn’t eat what everybody else was eating, (when I was first diagnosed unlike today we had to check and take insulin about 45 min before we could eat, and we had to eat the same amounts at the same times each day.) I was too embarrassed to ask my friends’ mom when the cake would be served at his birthday so that I would know when to take insulin. But now a day we are done with that, we can eat what and when we want at least as far as insulin and checking are concerned. Next time hopefully I will share with you some of the things I did, not good but tricky to fool my parents and doctors. Just open talk it school and fun to share experiences that only we could relate to. When I tell my other friends they don’t really get it. Its good for that reason but also for parents to get an idea of what can be going on with your kids now, they are creative and could and will do what it takes to get what they want.

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starting easy

~ Diabetes is about dedication. Taking care of your diabetes which means caring for you life is all about discipline, but that certainly doesn’t mean you cant have a life any more, we don’t have to start changing our entire personalities now that we have become diabetics. Diabetes doesn’t control our lives; we just need to control our diabetes. The good thing is diabetes is fairly simple to control, relatively speaking i mean. Diseases like cancer and muscular dystrophy are not as easily cared for, so in a large since we are lucky. You and i are a family that the non diabetics are not invited into, we are there for each other. If i meet another diabetic it is an automatic connection, we have started a relationship, it doesn’t mean i love every other diabetic i can still choose my friends but it is a close connection, a tie between us. We can support each other not just regarding our diabetes but anything else swell because we are a kind of family now.

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Lets get started- here is my profile.

~ I am a type 1, insulin dependent diabetic. I am twenty-one years old. I was diagnosed when I was only eight years old, and was in second grade. My father is an ER doctor so thankfully he realized my symptoms pretty quickly and I was diagnosed when I was still in good health nothing crazy, no hospitals, I didn’t pass out, just regular old pissing every twenty freaking minutes.  I was careful about it for the first couple of years, but then again I was a kid and I tricked everyone, I did anything I had to not to have to skip cake at my friends birthday, or come out late to recess because I was checking my sugars, until the A1C came back and no body was fooled. I did that for a couple of years, actually until recently when I decided its my life and I will get my health under control now, I want a family, kids, a wife, grandchildren… and I want to be alive to watch them. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BY COMMENTING ON ANY POST.[ If you are answering a question please be clear as to who and the date of the question you are answering.] Alternatively you can email them to me and i may put it on the side bar with an answer if it is something i think would be beneficial to our readers, or I'll simply email you back.
Please feel free to email me ilivewithdiabetes@yahoo.com