Living with and Accepting Diabetes in Everyday Life

Living with and accepting diabetes in everyday life is NOT easy. My foot podiatrist recently told me about 3 months ago that my feet seems to be getting worse because of the peripheral neuropothy caused from my Type II diabetes keeps getting worse each year. If you have recently been diagnosed with diabetes, I would seriously think about what I am saying? If you truly ignore this disease, it will NOT go away. Unfortunately, it's not like a bad tooth you can have pulled at the dentist office.

I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes approx. 8 years ago. I had always been a "healthy, strong and PERFECT weight person" so I naturally thought these symptoms would eventually fade away. "Boy!" was I ever wrong!" I took the medicine the doctor prescribed for me for years, but reluctantly did NOT change my diet in any way like a fool. I went to my doctor every (6) six months and he kept telling me "You've got to change your diet" I never listened to this guy hoping that things would get better.

In my mind, I just kept thinking? "I am taking my medicine?" What more do these people want me to do?" About four years later, I ended up having a mild stroke which was apparently related to my diabetes and high cholesterol count. (My original perfect weight for my bone structure age was ironically still the same). The doctors at the hospital told me my diabetes had reached over 378 points at the time I was admitted, and my triglyceride level cholesterol count was the worst they had ever seen most likely trying to "scare me" which I thought at the time was "hilarious", because I never trusted doctors.

The hospital doctors also told me, "You have got to change your diet?" As a Southerner of fried foods, especially fried chicken, (which seems to be the tradition here in Atlanta Ga.). I have always enjoyed cooking from vegetable oil. "Which I think taste great!" However, these greasy animal fat parts seem to build up a clogging substance over the years in your blood stream called "Cholesterol", similar to auto engines that have not changed their oil for a very long time, the way a man that works on cars would observe this particular situation.

Now days, the pain in my feet seems to be getting better, because I have simply changed my "Diet" and have FINALLY accepted diabetes in my life as a NO cure and NO WIN problem and or situation for human beings. Memory still reminds me at times, as a diabetic, even my visions and well being as a human being does NOT seem to get any better on a daily basis until recently, because I changed my daily diet. I have finally realized in my life that I am a diabetic, and at that this time in history in medical science there is NO unfortunate cure for this sometimes fatal disease.

Fortunately, my friends and especially my family members have learned to accept the fact that I have diabetes. "So wouldn't I also" as a beautiful, loving and caring individual human being, whom truly loves life to the fullest extinct, no matter what I do in life? Unfortunately it's time to face the facts? "You have diabetes and there is NO cure at this time in history" This disease will only get worse if you don't treat it properly everyday?

After all the years of pain and suffering of this dreadful disease, I have finally came to grips that "I have been in denial" for so many years and finally learned that it's time that I am willing to accept diabetes in my daily life. "It's hard, but now I know it will NEVER go away, as long as I live, until the day I die". At times, it's still tough and complicated to accept diabetes in my life as a person of so much physical strength throughout the years, but will eventually over come this problem because I am a strong and loving individual for my life, my friends, and especially my loving family.