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41 years agone today I was diagnosed amongst t1 diabetes. I remember for sure things close my diagnoses and my admission memories - like social workers questioning me about a scar on my butt, a nurse dressed equally a clown telling me I did indeed have diabetes, together with beingness sorry about missing Halloween. 

I’ve written close what I retrieve close my DX , my really start friend I met at the infirmary amongst diabetes named Joe, my life pre together with post service DX. 

Every twelvemonth since Diabetesaliciousness began, I’ve written a listing of things that I honey together with am grateful for on my Diaversary - because it's a adept reminder for me that I’m withal here, I’m withal alive, together with there’s then much inward life to honey together with endure thankful for. 

Here's my listing for 2018.

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1. I withal honey Halloween together with I withal honey to wearing apparel upwardly - It’s MAGIC

2. Little kids. Little brand me smiling together with the bulk of today’s teenagers laissez passer on me promise for the future.

3. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups - I honey them - I ever will.

4. Dancing  - I honey to dance. I haven't danced equally much equally of belatedly - I withdraw to rectify that, ASAP.

5. Really adept sex.

6. The beach inward the wintertime when all the crowds are gone.

7. Swimming inward the body of body of water - I experience complimentary together with at habitation together with I honey it.

8. The color yellowish - it makes me experience all brilliant together with shiny.

9. Cupcakes - they  are the perfect size treats together with depending on the circumference together with icing thickness - I tin move ordinarily approximate the carb count no problem! IT’S Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 GIFT.

10. Traveling - I honey traveling - it exposes me to dissimilar places together with people together with it shows me simply how similar people are spell appreciating the dissimilar cultures.  Diabetes hasn’t diminished my honey or my mightiness to travel. 

11. D Meet-ups. If I didn’t direct maintain diabetes I would direct maintain a lot less friends - together with coming together upwardly amongst diabetes peeps inward existent life is pretty damn special! 

12. Old movies. I'll focus on one, this fourth dimension around. The Ghost And Mrs. Muir - I honey this moving painting - it makes me vociferation every fourth dimension I scout it. 

13. Making soup. OK, I brand similar at to the lowest degree eighteen dissimilar types of soups from scratch - It's kinda my affair - together with I travail to add together a novel soup every year.  Some people are bakers. I am a "souper." 

14. Making soup for friends - it makes me experience similar I’m helping together with taking attention of the people I love. 

15. Dogs. I honey dogs. I don’t larn people who don’t similar dogs. I was flake past times ii dissimilar dogs growing upwardly together with I withal honey dogs. 

16. Twinkle lights.

17. Purple. Who doesn’t honey purple? Purple is magnificent. Also: I expect magnificent inward purple! 

18. Prosecco - GOD I LOVE Presecco!

19. Wild donkey guessing on a bolus for a nutrient I direct maintain no thought the carb count on together with having a BINGO bg a few hours later. 

20. Movie previews. I honey them - direct maintain to endure at that spot for them - then don’t brand me late!

21. Movies. I honey going to the movies - but I direct maintain a actually tough fourth dimension watching a scary, gory movie. I honey comedies, honey stories, thrillers, "children's movies together with historical dramas. 

But I can’t bargain amongst gore. 

22. Oatmeal cookies. They are the most nether appreciated cookies on the planet. Go swallow i at i time together with you'll reckon I'm right!

23. Cookies inward full general - except I’m non a huge fan of the ones amongst actually glutinous jelly inward them. 

24. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 actually adept cheeseburger - amongst cheddar, jalapenos, together with raw onions.

25. Speaking of jalapenos  - I LOVE SPICY FOOD.

26. Live theatre - it’s pretty damn exceptional - nosotros withdraw to back upwardly theater, local, regional together with broadway! 

27. Outdoor showers. It’s a beach thing. It’s amazing to accept a warm shower exterior together with nether the stars - I highly advise it.

28. The perfect shade of lipstick. Lipstick makes me happy. You volition rarely reckon me without it’s my talisman. 

29. Meeting novel friends. I honey making novel friends. As nosotros larn older - our friendship circle becomes smaller - I’m doing my best to buck that tendency because it’s stupid.

30. The colors light-green together with blue. I honey green. It brand me experience salubrious together with my eyes POP when I article of apparel green. Blue reminds me of people amongst diabetes, the ocean, together with cornflowers. Blue makes me pump happy.

31. Gifts from the sea. As inward shells, sea drinking glass together with rocks smoothed over past times the sand - That Poseidon knows what he’s doing! 

32. The Ocean. I am drawn to it together with I am purpose of it. The body of body of water calms me together with sometimes it frightens me. 

33. Photography. I honey to accept pictures - it allows me to reckon things cast dissimilar angles together with POV. It’s i of the ways I travail together with limited myself artistically. 

34. Naps. Naps are awesome. 

35. Cheese. I am a cheese slut. 

36. Writing inward Sketch books. I accept a lot of notes - writing inward sketchbooks allows me to limited my thoughts exterior of the lines.

37. Libraries. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 edifice filled amongst books; periodicals, art, computers together with neighbors - a companionship of bibliophiles that brings communities together.

38. Music. Music is purpose of my heart. There’s non a genre I don’t similar when it comes to music. 

39. Daffodils. Daffodils are resilient, they laissez passer on me promise together with they remind me of my mom. 

40. Children amongst Diabetes FFL Conference(s). Green together with Orange bracelet magic. 

41. My nieces together with nephews - Individual pieces of fine art that direct maintain made my life ameliorate since I start became an Auntie - at the historic menstruum of almost 6.