Diaversary: It Was Xl Years Agone Today

40 years amongst diabetes has gone past times similar "THAT!" 

I conception to hang amongst friends this night together with tomorrow night. Initially I wanted to throw a big 40th Diaversary political party - but it's been a crazy quarter. So I've decided to celebrate throughout the year!

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14,600 days ago, I was diagnosed amongst type 1 diabetes. 

It was forty years ago, today - THAT'S CRAZY. 

Also: forty years - W.T.F. How the heck tin my diabetes survive older than me?! 

So what receive got I learned since I was dx’d agency dorsum inwards 77? 

A hell of a lot together with quite frankly, also much for i post. 

Diabetes has taught me to appreciate together with celebrate the expert days - together with to admit the non together with therefore dandy ones. 

That it’s OK to express mirth at diabetes together with I strongly propose that y'all practise - together with equally oft equally possible. 

On the flip- side, It is also absolutely OK to outcry because of diabetes together with I encourage it.

Keeping “it” all within is overrated together with detrimental to our mental together with physical health. 

It took me well-nigh forty years to realize that my parents weren't mad at me - they were upset at the disclose on the meter. Parents, maintain your game confront on - kids can't differentiate.  

I discovered that diabetes guilt tin survive an anchor or together with therefore your cervix that y'all didn’t fifty-fifty know y'all were wearing. Get rid of that accessory, ASAP - it holds y'all dorsum together with keeps y'all down. 

Diabetes is all the same instruction me to pick out my battles together with focus my energies on things that are important.

Diabetes proved to me that I was really expert at math. 

Four decades amongst a busted pancreas has taught me that in that place are moments when y'all experience lonely amongst together with because of your diabetes - but that if y'all receive got a d tribe - y'all are never alone. 

Find your tribe together with never allow them go. 

Finding the Diabetes Online Community has taught together with continues to instruct me that my diabetes isn’t improve than yours - it’s simply different... together with inwards some ways, real much the same. 

So no affair what type of diabetes y'all receive got - I got your back. 

I volition stand upward beside y'all together with struggle for you. 

I volition nous together with I volition defend together with I volition non blame. 

Life together with life amongst diabetes has showed me that y'all tin practise everything right, together with all the same non acquire the results y'all desire - but y'all receive got to maintain trying. 

Life has reinforced the fact that in that place are worse things than diabetes.

Things similar losing your parents together with the people y'all love.

Diabetes has shown me that words affair - together with that what y'all nation together with how y'all nation it, does indeed matter. Choose your words wisely, cheque your note often.

Diabetes was the catalyst for grooming together with developing my voice, because diabetes forced me to utter upward together with utter out from a immature historic menstruation - fifty-fifty when it was the terminal thing I felt similar doing.

Diabetes made me that realize that maxim “I’M HIGH,” after checking my blood sugar, tin consequence inwards shocked looks from strangers. 

Also: Obviously diabetes has been a huge influence on my twisted feel of humor. 

After forty years of life amongst D, my empathy skills are dialed upward to eleven - together with that is the gift that keeps on giving. 

And during these terminal forty years, I receive got learned that's OK to autumn downwards - equally long equally y'all acquire dorsum up. together with that ssometimes getting dorsum requires multiple attempts. 

Finally, forty years of living amongst diabetes, but generally because I am my mother’s daughter, 
I receive got learned that seeing the positives inwards life helps y'all acquire through life..  

And every twelvemonth on my diaverary, I brand a listing of positives and based on the Diaversary disclose I’m celebrating. 

here's what I came upward amongst this year.

40 Positives

1. The color of the heaven 10 minutes earlier the Sun goes downwards - it’s never the same canvass together with it ALWAYS takes my breath away

2. Making homemade soup - it relaxes me together with clears my head 

3. Eating homemade soup

4. Clean, crispy sheets

5. Swimming inwards the ocean

6. Salt H2O  - swimming in, floating on

7. Dogs - I love dogs together with dogs love me

8  Photography. I love taking pictures. Photography makes me appreciate colors together with expressions, together with allows me to consider the piddling things that I mightiness never receive got noticed.

9. Super sweetness strawberries

10. Halloween together with dressing upward inwards costume

11. Music 

12. Not many inwards the DOC know this, but I love to sing. I took vocalisation lessons for years, together with inwards college I used to stone out on the mike. 

13. Speaking of singing, SHOW TUNES are my jam

14  Hearing/seeing my nieces together with nephews sing. I love watching them perform. 

It’s inwards the genes together with it makes me happy 

15. Nailing carb count when it comes to a crazy hard carb meal 

16. Christmas lights

17 Clouds. CLOUDS ARE MAGIC 

18. Diabetes meet-ups - also MAGICAL 

19. The DOC. I’m damn grateful that I flora the DOC inwards 2007 - y'all guys receive got changed my life together with rocked my world

20. Diabetes technology scientific discipline - you’ve come upward a long agency baby! 

Now, if nosotros could simply acquire the prices down!

21. My DOC together with non DOC children. I don’t receive got bio children together with that door is belike closing for expert sooner rather than later- but I receive got amazing DOC together with non DOC kids who enrich my life together with brand my pump happy. 
Littles, Middles, Teens, together with College age. I love them, I acquire from them, together with I am together with therefore proud of them!

22. Children With Diabetes

23. D moms together with dads who receive got acquire my friends, substitute parents, together with friends for life. 

SO THANKFUL

24. The agency certainly shades of greenish brand my eyes popular - Same goes for purple, turquoise, together with yellow. 

25. Riding my wheel on perfect day

26. Traveling - I love to move - I bespeak to practise to a greater extent than of it

27. Jeans that brand my donkey expect fantastic

28. My friends (diabetes together with not,) who are identify unit of measurement - I would survive lost without them

29. Cupcakes brand me happy, together with for the most purpose - I tin smash the carb count past times eyeballing the circumference together with thickness of the icing on the cupcake - It’s a gift, together with a tasty i at that!

30. My family

31. When kismet happens

32. My parents. They are gone, I missy them terribly. 

I abhor that they no longer walk this the world together with the real idea of them brings me to tears. 

But I had them, they loved me, I loved them

33. Being an Aunt. No words except I love them all to a greater extent than than I love myself

34. Red wine, presecco, together with Tito’s vodka - but non all inwards the same glass

35. Books. Books receive got been my friends since forever

36. City lights

37. Great sexual activity together with lots of it

38. The give-and-take MAGNIFICENT. It’s well… MAGNIFICENT. People don’t usage the give-and-take “magnificent” nearly enough  - but I do. Learn from me. Embrace magnificent, nation the give-and-take together with usage it oft - And e'er allow the public consider how really magnificent y'all are!

39. Indian Summer. Perfect weather, amazing colors together with lite - TRULY MAGNIFICENT, INDEED

40. Hope floats, fifty-fifty inwards the roughest of waters