Just Do You

Just some advice I would give to someone wanting to know if they can really do this. 

Just because you are missing your Beta Cells in your pancreas doesn't mean you are not enough. Sometimes the dragon gets the better of you and sometimes you kick the dragon out of the castle. Learning how to manage your life with diabetes is about kicking butt and taking names.


One time I was complaining about being diabetic to my husband and he said: well, don't be diabetic right now....only be diabetic when you have to check or take insulin..the rest of the time, live (ie: kick butt and take names. )


You are better than you think, stronger than you know and loved more than you thought possible. Remember...you are you and not diabetes.


Try to live in the moment. Don't live in the past: it can't be changed, only learned from. Don't live in the future...let the worries take care of themselves.


Get really good at doing YOU...find out who you are...this disease will show you all day every day...so will any other challenge. You get to choose ......there is always a choice. Make good ones.