Living with Diabetes

I recently got this comment from a fellow diabetic who was recently diagnosed. I think he was trying to understand why the early onslaught. I remember being in there myself. I kept questioning why I would become diabetic this early in life. Was it - - The stress of work and marriage - Being Overweight - Lack of exercise - Too much of a sweet tooth - Too much beer - Smoking......... and so many more. Eventually I came to realize that these are all things that helped being the inevitable on earlier than what it would come on otherwise. There is no one way to get diabetes. If there was then someone could just say. eat so many sweets that they become diabetic. This is not true. You see hundreds of people around you abusing sugar, becoming obese but they are suffering from the diseases. I think genetic plays a hand here and the rest of the environment stuff will help to hinder an early onslaught.

I cannot believe that it has been 5 years since I have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. So many things have happened since then. I feel like I have gone through a roller coaster of emotions and treatments. Though while I was going through them they did not seem this crazy. I have often thought about Diabetes as being a learning exercise. After 5 years of learning the basics, I think now I am going in for the Kindergarden stage. Now some more building blocks will be put in. I plan on reading up a lot more about the disease and maybe get involved a little bit on the science behind the suffering.