Diabetesalicious Mode Dorsum When Post: Honey Kelly Inward The Past

This diabetesalicious nail from the past, post originally aired ( I hateful posted,) on September 15th, 2008 in addition to I all the same experience this agency v years later. 
Even though I all the same experience this agency - And after an incredible calendar week at #CWDFFL13, 
where I was continually reminded inwards existent fourth dimension past times my Green & Orange bracelet wearing identify unit of measurement of myself worth inwards all dimensions! 
I started to intend nigh this postal service because my #cwdffl13 clan personified what I was feeling when I wrote this postal service in addition to they made me retrieve why I wrote it. Thanks guys!
So thence I went dorsum in addition to reread it in addition to decided to repost.  
And I'm hoping that past times reposting, I volition boot the bucket along to remind myself in addition to anyone else who needs reminding simply how fantastical they are - And simply how far we've come upwards
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Wrote this for lots of reasons, all to long to acquire into. Bottom line, nosotros are imperfect people inwards an imperfect public - Diabetes or not....And nosotros are wonderful!
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Dear Kelly inwards the Past -

It’s Kelly from the future. I’m writing you lot for several reasons. 
*To remind me simply how far I’ve come upwards whenever stress in addition to sadness start to creep inwards regarding life alongside the large D.
*And how far I all the same demand to boot the bucket inwards club to attain all that life has to offer.
*And to remind others that life goes on in addition to happiness happens, regardless of diabetes. *That there’s materials (shit) that you lot to demand to motion past times inwards club to indeed, alive in addition to flourish - d related or not.

*And that every bit a kid or adult alongside diabetes, you lot demand to alive in addition to experience ALL life has to offer.

First off Kelly, delight retrieve no affair how tough life gets alongside diabetes or otherwise – you lot deserve the best life has to offering you.
Your non damaged goods because of a faulty pancreas. And every fourth dimension that vocalisation of self incertitude screams out regarding your self worth in addition to what you lot deserve, retrieve that everyone – diabetic or non - is never born perfect, no affair how they appear on the outside.

Everyone on public is born alongside imperfections in addition to issues in addition to that’s component subdivision of life.
Don’t intend you lot deserve less because a really small-scale component subdivision of your pancreas doesn’t function.

Only the dead are perfect, in addition to that’s because our retention allows that inwards club for us to acquire past times the grief.

You deserve it all. To live loved, accepted, in addition to respected. You deserve to laissez passer on your dreams, instead of worrying thence much nigh your wellness in addition to what the futurity holds, that you lot really gibe yourself dorsum inwards the present.

Look to all the positives your diabetes has given instead of simply the negatives.

Would you lot genuinely live such an empathetic, funny, intuitive individual had diabetes non entered your life?

To that gangly 8-year alongside the confront total of freckles: You don’t have got to live thence brave nigh it all. It’s OK to outcry inwards forepart of your identify unit of measurement regarding your diagnoses. Your identify unit of measurement is scared in addition to distressing too.

Continue to expect to the funny every bit agency to direct hold your diagnoses. You’ll live tempted to rebel in addition to comprehend the angry side of things. Don’t. It wastes energy, confidence, in addition to precious fourth dimension that you’ll never acquire back.

Your kickoff Endo doctor Baker was right, “you’re exclusively pain yourself if you lot don't tell the truth.”

Adolescent Kel: I know your parents drive your crazy, specially nigh your diabetes.
Please hold inwards heed that they are suffering in addition to stressing themselves. But because they love you, they aren’t going to demo you lot how horrible your diabetes makes THEM feel!
Now, they mightiness demand some persuading to allow you lot practise a few things (like vesture contacts) but they really allow you lot practise thence much to a greater extent than than they really were every comfortable with.They’ve allow you lot boot the bucket on sleepovers; they’ve sent you lot to camp, allowed you lot to trip the low-cal fantastic in addition to perform on stage, in addition to e'er had orangish juice waiting inwards the wings. They allow you lot piece of employment in addition to earn spending money. As a child, they never allow you lot wallow inwards anything fifty-fifty resembling diabetes self pity. They didn’t allow anyone else to allow you lot to wallow inwards it either.

They prepared you lot to live an independent adult. Some day, you lot volition appreciate it to a greater extent than than you lot ever idea possible.

There volition come upwards a fourth dimension inwards your life when you’ll realize all they did alongside the noesis that was available to them, which at the fourth dimension – wasn’t much. You volition live thankful.

I know you're scared nigh what's happening to your sister Debbie. I also know your really angry. That’s OK.
Please verbalize to someone.

Speak upwards when someone hurts you, instead of beingness stoic. Stoic is for the birds. Taking inwards all that wound in addition to anger exclusively hurts you lot inwards the long run, no ane else.

To quote Don Henley (whom you lot volition have got a major shell on inwards your teens) said it best. “Carrying all that anger, volition simply consume you lot upwards inside.”

Kelly, this is a hard one. Forgive in addition to motion on. Let things in addition to people boot the bucket who have got wound you, no affair how hard it mightiness be. Remove the weight of sadness from to a greater extent than or less cervix in addition to environs yourself alongside those who non simply comprehend you, but who comprehend positivity every bit well. You volition larn thence many wonderful lessons from them!

Don’t struggle diabetes, OWN IT. Because the infinitesimal you lot start to convey your diabetes, you lot volition observe that many of the issues that you lot struggle alongside regarding diabetes, volition autumn to the side every bit you lot laid about to boot the bucket empowered past times ownership of your disease.

What you lot volition live left alongside is a feeling of command regarding non simply your disease, but also your life.

Forget what’s pop alongside masses in addition to boot the bucket alongside what your oculus knows is right.

Teen Kelly: Remember that those kids who made fun of you lot because of your diabetes in addition to those horrible spectacles you lot had to wear, mightiness have got been picked on for reasons that inwards actuality, had absolutely zippo to practise alongside you lot or your diabetes.
Most probable their parents didn’t empathize the whole diabetes thing in addition to children larn from their parents.
Maybe (and simply every bit likely,) they had problems at habitation much greater than your fourteen yr former self ever imagined. Problems that were fifty-fifty bigger than your diabetes.
Problems similar parents divorcing; eating disorders, sickness inwards their ain families, in addition to struggles within themselves that they shared alongside no one. Perhaps they suffered from such a poor self-image that picking on your visible imperfections helped them to ignore their own.

Instead of thinking that they mightiness live right, know that they are incorrect in addition to are unhappy.
Ignore them in addition to focus on the positive.

And halt wanting a olfactory organ undertaking for god sakes! TRUST ME, you’ll grow into your olfactory organ in addition to live grateful that you're non ane of those poor people walking to a greater extent than or less alongside a minuscule olfactory organ on large featured face.


Kelly At 16: When someone compliments you, expect them direct inwards the oculus & alongside a grin on your confront in addition to tell “Thank-you.” And regardless of whether you lot intend you lot deserve or not.
A compliment is ii fold. Yes, it’s given to brand the receiver experience good, but it also makes the individual giving the compliment experience good.
So don’t diminish or belittle a person's endeavour to live dainty in addition to confident past times brushing it aside in addition to beingness embarrassed past times the variety words said on your behalf.

And retrieve those compliments, they volition acquire you lot through the self-doubt.

Listen, I know you lot don’t desire to hear this, but shoulder pads in addition to helmet pilus are indeed a "Glamour Don’t," regardless of what Teen Magazine says.

And yes, your mom in addition to was correct - Bangs are non your best look, in addition to iridescent lipstick mightiness piece of employment for some, but is simply makes you lot expect sick.

Kelly at 20: You volition live thence happy you lot started alongside the whole xxx & 50 sunscreen thing, in addition to your seven yr peel innovation – TRUST ME. And FYI, the tan goddess bitch who called you lot "Casper' when you lot were dating her ex immature human being – her confront looks similar a Catcher's mitt now.

Don’t attempt thence hard to test how normal you are “in spite” of beingness a individual alongside diabetes.
You volition realize that what’s normal for some, is completely abnormal for others, in addition to that’s ok. What I’m trying to tell is, your normal is unlike that someone else’s, in addition to your normal industrial plant for you. So run alongside it!


Kelly inwards your 20’s: Embrace ALL of who you lot are.
Go after your dreams, instead of listening to what others intend you lot should practise or be.

22 yr former Kelly: Remember to tell those you lot love, that you lot practise indeed love them, no affair how much they mightiness drive you lot crazy. The people you lot love won’t live to a greater extent than or less forever. And trust me, you volition missy them terribly when they’re gone.

Kelly, skilful telephone telephone regarding your parents. You volition live incredibly grateful that you lot started to tell “I love you” every fourth dimension you lot said goodbye. They learned to tell it back, in addition to they began to tell it first, in addition to often. Soon, it flowed to a greater extent than freely than beer at a bbq - in addition to all of you lot volition know how deep the love really was, in addition to is.

To 27 yr former Kelly: You are NOT fat, in addition to no, you're non rails thin. But your parents were right, you lot are beautiful, within in addition to out! Please come across that instead of exclusively the imperfections.

I know that you're scared that history volition repeat itself - it volition not.
You're doing what you lot have got to do, thence pose whatever mistakes you lot made alongside your diabetes inwards the past, in addition to larn from them. It volition non exclusively atomic number 82 you lot to skilful wellness – but to a wonderful public regarding the diabetes community. I public that you’ve tried to near out instead of embracing for a really long time.

Let your guilt boot the bucket regarding Debbie. You did the best you lot could.

To 33-year-old Kelly: Someone who has no love or self- abide by for them self, volition never have got whatever for you lot – no affair what they say. If they don’t love, like, in addition to abide by who they are, they can’t love, like, & abide by you.

Don’t environs yourself alongside people who won’t practise the piece of employment on themselves, they’ll exclusively blame you lot for what they lack from within.

Kelly inwards existent time: Remember likewise hold loving yourself – all parts of you lot - fifty-fifty the parts that don't work.

Hold your caput up, boot the bucket along to learn, boot the bucket along to laugh, in addition to most definitely boot the bucket along to love.
You are older in addition to wiser. Life has been total of changes, in addition to going alongside the catamenia gets a chip tricky at times, but you lot are lucky to live inwards the world, in addition to the public is lucky to have got you.

And lastly: You are MAGNIFICENT - And never forget that! 
Xoxo
Kelly In The Present