Oprah has done a really good show today — I think she called it “The Fat One in the Family”.
It’s a really good show on how beating people over the head with obesity doesn’t help them and in fact hurts them.
Two overweight women with thin families were on and it showed how the thing members of their family were hurting them and sabotaging any weight loss attempts made.
It’s not just that way with weight, but with diabetes care too. Except for the health care team — outside people really can’t help a diabetic (Type 1 or Type 2) take care of themselves — except in the case of youngster’s with diabetes, but that’s another story.
I’ve said this before — I’m lucky, my diabetes did not come on gradually, but suddenly. I have another factor on my side, I know I have a ticking time bomb — 2 generations of my family, my father and both of his parents, were diagnosed with diabetes at approximately the same age, and within 10 years, each of the three of them suffered a severe cardio vascular complication.
I still have to take it one day at a time, and there are days when I can’t deal with diabetes as well as I should. It is going to be that way with all diabetics, no matter what way they are treating their disease. Pumping, shots, pills, somedays it is just TOO much.
And part of the reason it gets to be too much, is that depression is a major complication. It is a part of dealing with most chronic diseases.