Life seems to move at 1,000,000 mph at the moment. I'm not sure how it has already been almost 2yrs since I last posted on here and a lot has happened in that time.
- I have now graduated from uni and have a job as an actual teacher
- I have got engaged and planned my wedding (4 months to go!)
- I have moved in with my partner and have become a 'real' adult!
- I have completed (and passed) my first year of university
- I have added another 2yrs onto the diabetes tally
- I have found a specialist MODY consultant who I now see and who actually knows about my diabetes type
- I have started on an insulin pump and am currently using a Dexcom CGM
- I have gone through many periods of diabetes burnout but got through each one!
- I have got my hba1c down to 6.1%
- I have now got a beautiful niece and we are now looking to have a little one of our own!
As I said, life is passing by very fast with very little time to even think about anything that I used to view as a priority. Diabetes still sucks, but it's less sucky than it used to seem. I don't know whether that is down to me growing up or that diabetes isn't such a huge part of my life anymore, but either way it causes me less stress and I am coping much better with it.
Sometimes I can't believe that I've come this far after all I have been through. If you had asked me where I would be in 5yrs time when I started this blog I wouldn't have thought I would be a fully qualified teacher with a husband-to-be and a flat. I didn't even think I would make it through my first year at college.
It just goes to show, you can be failing, you can be on the verge of giving in to those harmful thoughts, you can have no money or a shitty family and you can still get through and achieve. I am so proud of how well I have done and so incredibly pleased that I didn't end it all when I thought life wouldn't get any better.
Hold on. Keep going. You WILL get there 💙💙
