My name is David and I was diagnosed with Liveabetes when I was 33, now 44, I continue to struggle some days and feel like a conqueror on others. This disease have changed my life in positive for the most part, or that is the way to choose to look at it. I choose to call it “Liveabetes” because I don’t like to have a disease that has the sound die” at the beginning.
I chose to take up running a couple of years ago which has changed my life and disease in a dramatic way. Although, running with Liveabetes can certainly have its challenges for sure like hypoglycemia and having to pay special attention to my feet and legs, it has been such a great addition to my life in so many ways. So, I take the Liveabetes as a blessing in that I may never have discovered running had I not been diagnosed. I am now mostly taking long acting insulin and reduced my short acting injections to 0.
Eating is still my biggest challenge and will continue to try and overcome that obstacle but will keep fighting to get it right. Sometimes it can be such a lonely disease as friends and family who do not have it cannot understand the ups and downs but I am trying to find and reach out to others with Liveabetes.
Fight on and never give up and it is my hope someday we find a cure for this disease!
Oklahoma City, OK
