My story starts when I was 20. I was having a gynecologist visit for follow up after ovarian cysts removal. She came back in and looked paled. You really do not want that kind of face on a doctor. She told me to get up to the hospital right away because I had so much ketones, it was off the chart. Ketones, huh? Needless to say we all know what that word means down the road. I went through that awful test that left me sick for days and sure enough my life changed in a blink of an eye. DIABETES!
It has been a ever-changing challenge over these years. I am now thirty seven
and things are not any easier. The challenges of keeping balance is stifling to say the least. Changing meds all the time and now on insulin.
I have a weekly pep rally to keep my spirits up on this journey. I go out to eat and enjoy whatever I want without looking at numbers. This gives me the freedom to award myself and be normal for that one day, than back to the grind stone we go. I know it will be with me for life unless a cure can be found. I have my screaming moment fits ,but mostly just agree that it is there and challenge myself to new opportunities to make it easier to live with.
We can do this people! In ways we are stronger than most people out there. We know what it is to fight and never give up. Remember God did not make junk. He was taking a walk one day and found all these peaces. Not wanting to waste a single one, he took all the care of his finest treasure and put the peaces together and here we are! Blessings to each one of you!
Ione, OR
