16 years on September 3rd. Most people are diagnosed with t1 in their late teens or early adulthood, but I was diagnosed at 3. They think that my pancreas had started failing in July but crashed in September.
Oh no no no. I don't like coffee at all. I find it to be bitter and just awful. I'm a tea drinker. Fruit tea, herbal tea, breakfast tea, iced tea, - love it.
you're lucky that treatment for diabetes has been extensively researched. it can be controlled if you follow the medicinal path. some people have conditions that can't be treated yet. I envy you a lot
I understand that and I'm sorry that some people but diabetes is hard to live with. It's unpredictable and has a lot of complications such as neuropathy and retinopathy, depression, etc., and sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't get it right. It's a life changing disease and as much as I completely understand what you're saying, I feel like you're trying to sort of say that diabetes isn't so bad because it can be treated, but that doesn't lessen the pain and the struggle any more.
Do you like perfume? Because that's one thing I draw the line with. I can't stand perfume. Yuck xD
Knowing that your lifespan is shortened the longer you've had it. Knowing that every non-diabetic around you has something you want, need and should have naturally but never will. knowing that (for me) I will never ever be able to live without my Pod. A little life support machine that can never be switched off no matter how well you feel. Insulin causes weighr gain and weight gain means more insulin. People staring. People treating you differently. The fact that it is chronic. Oh, and this: diabetes is fatal. People think that because outwardly we look pretty good, that we're not ill. Like, don't you get it? A mere couple of hours without insulin and our bodies stary to /shut down/. I've been there. Do you know what dying feels like? Do you know what /organ failure/ feels like? How's about the pain you feel when your heart can't beat properly anymore, or when you lose consciousness and wake up with a femoral line and 8 fluid bags, a cannula in your foot and a catheter and YOU'RE ONLY 18.