When you have Type 1 diabetes you become your very own science experiment. This is my life. The highs and lows, ups and downs, and all the little pricks.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Little Reminders
Sometimes living with diabetes seems very isolating. I get stuck in this mindset that the non-diabetics around me (so basically everyone) do not understand it takes to live with a chronic disease day to day. And while it is probably true that they can't understand, I often catch myself feeling that they don't care or want to care about it either. In reality I know that this isn't true and it's good that I have small reminders now and then. My ever curious son reminds me with his endless barrage of questions when I check my blood sugar. "Dad, what is your sugar blood?" or "How does that machine tell your blood sugar?" Or when he understands allows me to recover after a bad low when all he really wants to do is play with his dad. Co-workers remind me by telling me they have a bag of emergency candy in the filing cabinet drawer after they weren't allowed to have a community candy drawer anymore. But I think the biggest reminders come from the Pretty Lady in My Life, most of the time probably without her knowing it. It is in the drowsy offers for help with a late night low and leaving the wrapper with the nutrition facts out when she cooks dinner. And it is in her willingness to sacrifice so I can have things that may not be a necessity, but that make my life a little easier to handle. Since it's so easy to get in that rut of feeling isolated and alone, I am so thankful for the little reminders that come about.
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