I am coming up on a very important date to me. On March 3, 2013 I will have been diagnosed with Diabetes for 20 years!!! Now, when people first hear that it is met with a mixed response - Yea! Oh, wait, that's not good at all....
Well, yeah, it stinks to have diabetes sometimes, but I remember after first being diagnosed I felt like if I could JUST get through the first year, I'd be okay. And then the next year I thought, this year has to be easier than the last. And so on, and so on. Well here I am, 20 years later, and NO COMPLICATIONS!!! To me, that is worth celebrating. :)
If you are diabetic, or know someone that is, I hope this blog will be a help to you. I want to share some of my experience. What I've learned. Tips, products, advice, hard knocks, to hopefully encourage and inspire. I hope we can interact together and I can answer questions or perhaps have others share insights with me!!
Tomorrow I will get into what my diagnosis was like, and how I was fortunate enough to have one of the best endocrinologists (in my humble opinion) in the nation as my doctor upon diagnosis which I believe has been key to my long term success.
I want to dare to live my life and not let diabetes hinder me. I hope through this blog other diabetics will join me and do the same as we share our experiences together.
Ta - ta for now,
Gretchen
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