diabetes is hard. it is there every minute of every hour of every. single. day. there is no escaping it.... it can consume your every thought, your every action and every ounce of energy that you have. sometimes you just need to let it take a back seat, let yourself be like everyone else again.... sometimes you need to loosen the grip diabetes has on you and give yourself a break.
it feels good to relax a bit and enjoy life, to not be ruled by a chronic illness.
so that's what i do :) occasionally (more often than i should) i relax a bit more, i still test, i still inject, but if there's a high number, so what? life is too short to worry about one or two numbers that are out of range.....
yesterday i went to the beach with friends, it was amazing and i had a great time..... my levels ran high pretty much all day but i didn't care. all that mattered was that i was having a good time with amazing people. i ate what everyone else did. i swam in the sea just like everyone else. i played games, ran around and watched the sun set without a second thought to diabetes... in short, i was normal. i had the sort of day that most people take for granted..... yeah i still had to stab my fingers and inject while onlookers stared, but once my test kit and insulin were away, that was it, diabetes gone.....
diabetes still causes problems and makes me feel rubbish, it still needs to be taken care of.... but to me its important to take a break from the constant strain it brings.... it is still there to deal with another day
so sometimes i simply let it take a back seat to the rest of my life :)
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