Last night I was working on a project with someone, and I felt my cognitive abilities start to slip. It was an hour after I normally eat. <\/p>\n
So I said “I have to eat now”.<\/p>\n
She wanted to keep going.<\/p>\n
I said “No, you don’t understand, I HAVE to eat NOW. I’m diabetic”.<\/p>\n
She said, “Everyone in the world knows you are diabetic”.<\/p>\n
I acknowledged that was true — as it is. And left her and ate.<\/p>\n
I felt much better later. But I had so many thing I wanted to say, but bit my tongue.<\/p>\n
Yes, I’m out there with my diabetes. Preventing complications — which I’ve managed to do so far — is number 1 with me. It comes before my dogs, my husband, my students. It comes before even a project I’m working on.<\/p>\n
Why? Because if I don’t take care of it, I won’t be able to do anything else.<\/p>\n
I watched my dad die of diabetes, and it was not a fun way to go. He made it fun, but it wasn’t. I don’t want to be that way.<\/p>\n
I want to be the woman who does a really good job running an Agility World Course with her beagle — which I did last night.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to be house bond and on oxygen like my dad was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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