Recently there has been a lot of talk about closed loop systems, a sensor measures your blood sugar level and works with the pump meaning you don't have to think about it, vaccines for the prevention of diabetes and "cures". Now I may be the only diabetic in the universe with this view but "curing" my diabetes doesn't sound like the miracle people are seeing it as.
I was diagnosed with diabetes ten years ago. Then I was six years old, I was still a child and therefore I grew up with diabetes. It has become part of me and I can't imagine life without it. Sure it has it's ups and downs and I have spent a fair few days in hospital. But these have provided some of the best stories and I have learnt so much from it. It's taught me to be so much more responsible for myself and I'm so much more aware about what is going on around me. To take that away from me I feel I would almost be lost without it. For me it has made me who I am today and also makes the awkward telling of an interesting fact about yourself nice and easy.
I fully understand why people would want to get rid of their diabetes. Some people have such a hard time controlling it and I think the older you are the harder it is to learn to control it. So for them a "cure" may be the answer, especially as the worse your control the higher risk of complications such as blindness. A lot of people are diagnosed with diabetes every day and for most of them it is a complete change in lifestyle but for the odd few it becomes a way of life.
A while ago I read an article abut how diabetes saved a girls life. She was drinking and partying all the time and was close to becoming seriously ill when she was diagnosed. She had to completely turn her life around to prevent her death. For people like her diabetes saved her life and for me I would be lost without it.
Rhona x
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