finding the time to sit down and really write what is in my head...well I have a hard time getting it done. I have a sweet friend who just took our precious little one to the swimming pool with her kiddos and here I sit! So many changes since Feb! Can't believe as I sit here, it is the end of June. Summer is in full swing and life is continuing to throw some huge curve balls our way. Humor, love, and patience are great qualities to have in these moments! I am lucky to be surrounded by a lot of people who have these qualities and so many more.I had a small outpatient surgery last week and I was overwhelmed at the love that poured into our house. Dinners, breakfasts, childcare, cards, emails, calls, etc....well it was a neat way for God to say "YOU ARE BLESSED, STOP AND TAKE NOTICE". Noted. I stopped and I noticed.
In other parts of our family there have been some health related emergencies. It has been difficult but only because we love each other so darn much. I hate being so far away from my family. I have really learned to rely on friends who have become family and I am thankful for all of your listening ears and prayers.
Good news in other forms have come forward lately and we have many things to celebrate too! Life is so wild the roller coaster that it is...two seconds ago we were climbing up the hill and now we are twisting and turning upside down. Glad my seat belt is fastened.
I decided I would once again grab a group of friends and in October do the Walk for Diabetes. I have been a type one diabetic for over 32 years. Which seems wild since I still feel 24. It is an everyday battle and balance. It pains me to hear of friends children who have been diagnosed and having to watch the families struggle with learning a new life with a chronic disease. Diabetes is nothing to mess around with. I have been in great control for most of my life and even with that have had complications. I have had over 20 laser eye surgeries fighting off Diabetic Retinopathy which is the leading cause of blindness in adults. Talk about looking at life through different lenses. I have to say when I take in a moment....I look at it a lot differently than I used to. I now have a beautiful daughter of my own and think how wonderful it would be for her generation to not have to deal with this disease. I have been told for 32 years that a cure is just around the corner. I still have much hope that it is in fact just around the corner.
Since being diagnosed, I have seen so many changes. I used to have to use urine (sorry anyone who wasn't ready for that) to test my blood sugar. Insulin used to come from a pig. Retinopathy was unstoppable and was a damned to blindness diagnosis. I took up to 5 shots a day. BUT NOW, through amazing research and technology....I wear an insulin pump. It regulates my blood sugars and I only have to change the site every three days. I just got a brand new lancet device for pricking your finger for blood samples for a blood sugar reading...and well it feels amazing. I know I know. Sounds crazy but believe me it has come far from the days back in the hospital when the nurse would prick your finger with the needle in HER hand.
I don't like asking people for money. I hated selling wrapping paper as a kid and girl scout cookies were not fun either. However this is one case in which I can ask and plead for because if I as a person who has the disease doesn't, then who will? If you at all so feel compelled, please watch the video (If I can figure out how to attach it...ha ha ha) and give to our Walk Team. Team DiaBEAThis :)!
Okay it is on Youtube.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAFTaF9viE&feature=youtube_gdata
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