World Diabetes Day – What does the DOC mean to me

It’s interesting.  I’m not sure that people realize that I started blogging about diabetes before everyone else.  Except maybe Will.  Not sure about that, but look at the blog history and you’ll see.

I’m different though.  I’m Type 2.  But I’m the same because I wear an insulin pump and have been exclusively on insulin from the start.  Weird, because I hate needles.  But Metforim was too much like using dice to decide what was going on with me.  Being a control freak, insulin has usually worked pretty well.

But because I’m Type 2, I’m a bit of a victim of the Type 1 / Type 2 wars, though Will’s book “Born again Diabetic” helped me a lot.

I’ve tried the insulin pumpers list, that didn’t work that well for me, but I have the same problem with Lapband user groups.  I am not sure why group therapy doesn’t work for me (might be that control freak that).

I also don’t write for a living (yet, there are still some textbooks cooking in my head).  So I don’t find the need to blog every day.  Besides, I’m a very busy teacher – should have hung out in my classroom today – and I have still cleaning up my house.  I’m not sure people realize that when I offer my guest room, I’m sort of tongue in cheek.  Though I have thought about moving into the guest room even after it was destroyed.

So I really admire what the Type 1 kids are doing.  I hope they get a cure, and I think there is a possibility for them.  I still don’t think there is a cure for my particular form of Type 2 diabetes.  It’s a really bad that you don’t get to pick your parents, but my father did have diabetes (diagnosed and died of complications in his late forties), and my mother was diagnosed several years after I was.

I also want to thank the twitter folks for some traveling hints last night.  I haven’t flown in a LONG time. 

It’s in the history, but I was diagnosed with diabetes at 42, about the same age as my dad.  He died of congestive heart failure at 48.  The good news, modern technology and constant monitoring throughout my adult lifetime has gotten me to 51.  Very close to 52.