Two Roads

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Permalink Reply by Steve RRR on June 27, 2008 at 12:26pm

How about the flip side to this question: When the cure is here (and it will be someday), will you want the cure?

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Permalink Reply by Gina Capone on June 27, 2008 at 12:27pm

good question. YES LOL

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on June 27, 2008 at 3:03pm

in 5 seconds.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 27, 2008 at 1:05pm

I have to say I would take the cure any day.

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Permalink Reply by Marykate on June 27, 2008 at 1:11pm

i would probley stay on the road i am right now. I like being different then most poeple but i like how people get into diabetes wondering whats it like. And it doesnt matter who you are, you could get diaetes, take nick jonas as a sample .. he is a different person then most famous people. God gaave you diabetes cause he new you could handle it. So i like it the way i am .

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Permalink Reply by debb on June 27, 2008 at 1:27pm

ok steve, i like that question too.
my answer would be, in a heart beat.
but not until everyone who needed it more then i do went first. i've
spent my whole life giving to my children before i gave to myself, so it
would be easy for me to wait my turn.
BUT, i don't want to have to wait
any longer then i have to.

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Permalink Reply by sparrowrose on June 27, 2008 at 2:42pm

I would take the road without diabetes because that would be the road where I asserted myself against boyfriends and husbands who kept bullying me into not eating the way I ate when I was growing up. The one good thing diabetes has given me is the backbone to insist that I have to eat my food and not some crap the guy in my life wants me to eat.

The path to a life without diabetes would also be the path to not letting my life be controlled by a string of petty dictators. Win-win. I regret that it took me until age forty to learn how to take a stand for myself and not buckle to everyone else, trying to please everyone else, stuffing my own life into a rucksack and hiding it away so that there would be no conflict. That's no way to live! I wasted so much of my life!

And now I'm paying for it with metformin pills that make me too sick to leave the house and do anything. This is my penance for being a dumbass doormat all those years.

No diabetes would mean I learned these lessons years ago and didn't eat myself into an early grave because someone else would throw a tantrum if I didn't eat the way they were eating. That was such a braindead way to live. What did it get me?

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Permalink Reply by KnittinMama on June 27, 2008 at 2:59pm

If I wasn't diagnosed with diabetes, I might not have chosen the path which lead to the birth of my son. But perhaps I would have.

However, if I didn't have diabetes my son (who is five) wouldn't be worried about his mother being 'sick' and I wouldn't be worried about how the future of my health might affect him. I'd take no diabetes in a heartbeat.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on June 28, 2008 at 11:19pm

Diabetes has shaped who I am. Without it, my life would be unrecognizable, I wouldn't even recognize myself. I wouldn't have met the people I've known through my life, and I never would have met my husband. I'm grateful for all it's given me - even the hardships because they've shaped me and taught me so much - so I can't imagine life without it. I can't say I wouldn't be curious to meet non-diabetic me, but I like who I am and my life as it is, so I prefer to keep it as I know it.

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Permalink Reply by Linda on June 29, 2008 at 2:03pm

Let me think about this choice a minute!
I am always looking for a personal cure for T1D,,,,lol
I too have had T1D for the majority of my life and it has made me a stronger person!
I feel very lucky to be alive with ALL I have dealt with throughout the years of my D, complications and allergies! As you know I have survived quite a few obstacles with my D. I hope for the best control in my D. and look forward to better A1C’s! (That’s an original goal,,lol)
I can not think of what it would have been like without D? That seems funny to me now!
I just do the best I can with what I was dealt and it is ok with me! (Ask me tomorrow I may change my mind!) lol
I would like the link to your friends posting!
This would indeed be interesting to read in full!
Linda

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Permalink Reply by kristy on June 29, 2008 at 5:24pm

I agree with Karen. I was diagnosed with type 1 when I was 18 months old nearly 27 years ago. I deal with highs on a daily basis, weight gain from all the insulin I take, sores from my pump injections, nerve damage in my feet (it hurts just to make dinner), and worst of all after having my only daughter my doctor suggested I have a tubal ligation which I did and now regret horribly. I am only 28 years old and have no idea how much longer I will be alive or if I will get to watch my little girl get married or even graduate from high school. The road without the diabetes would have been my choice for sure!!

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Permalink Reply by Andy Barnes on June 29, 2008 at 7:26pm

Gina great and thought provoking question. For me I would take the D road but if I knew in 1971 what I know now I woukd have done a few things different but God has taken good care of me and luckily do not have very many complications, with that in mind though what I have learned along the way I would not change for the world.

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