Diabadass

* Disclaimer: I didn't write this to get sympathy or pity. Just simply trying to give you a look at my life through my eyes *

November is National Diabetes Month!

People often ask me what being diabetic is like.

So over the last few weeks I documented some of these instances.  

This is what I'll caption "The Night Prowler." I got up in the middle of the night with low blood sugar and here is the blood stained wall from stumbling through the dark to the kitchen for a pack of fruit snacks or two.

This is what I refer to as a "double gusher." Often times when I test my blood sugar, old puncture wounds re open and I bleed from multiple spots. Yummy right?

My fingertips are constantly raw and bruised from testing my blood sugar levels around ten times a day. Yolo.  

Sorry for the lack of body coverage. But when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror sometimes it's hard to not feel like a robot.

So if I'm ever in a bad mood, maybe it's because I'm constantly being stabbed by a couple of things.



My health has been less than superb recently, but it has taught me so much and I am so grateful for that. (Believe me: I'm not always so optimistic, but I've been trying to do a better job of finding the lessons in my trials.) One of the main lessons being that you never know what someone else's struggle is just by looking at them. I'm sure most people look at me and think all is well because there's no visible sign that something is wrong. But under my clothes I have a little tube and discman-like machine that is pumping me full of insulin--my life support. I have blood sugar swings and frustrations and really hard days. But so does everyone to one extent or another.

I would never wish to have this chronic disease or to live with the daily struggles that I do, but I wouldn't exchange the lessons I have learned throughout my experience with it for anything.


Be kind. Love people. Always give others the benefit of the doubt. Life is too hard to not do those things.  We all need the friendship and support of others.  You never know what someone else is facing. I have been blessed to have people placed in my life who have helped me and uplifted me more than I could ever possibly show appreciation for.

Suck it, diabetes.