There are a lot of things to be thankful, even if you are diabetic.
While the state of medical technology isn’t all we would want, it is infinitely better than when my dad was diabetic. They didn’t have blood glucose monitors and they hold him not to eat sugar. They also didn’t have medications, nor did they give him insulin.
Actually they didn’t do much of anything for Type 2 diabetes back then.
And not much better for Type 1s, but at least they attempted to treat it.