What if you had to inject insulin every day for the rest of your life to stay alive
How would you feel
What if you needed all this just to stay alive
What if you had to watch your 2 year old have a tantrum because their blood sugar was so
low they had no idea what was going on
What if you had to watch this and hope and pray that their blood sugar comes up fast enough
that you don't have to hold them down
and pin them down and shove food down their throat again
What if you had to watch your 4 year old test his blood sugar several times a day
What if you constantly feel like a human pin cushion from all the finger sticks, sensor
changes, and infusion site changes
What if every decision that you make for the rest
of your life every single day
revolved around a single number
And that number can be different every time
In order to get that number you have to prick
your finger every single time
and based on that number is a decision that you'll make
What if you had to wake up several times a night
just to test your blood sugar to make sure you would make it to the morning
What if one day my children were like me and ended up with type 1 diabetes also
What if you had a type 1 diabetic child or yourself and not only were you given the lovely
amoxicillin for having strep but you also had to deal with your normal stuff every single
day that you have
What if you were doing a craft and you had
to stop doing what you were doing to have your child
check her blood sugar to make sure she was
okay
What if every morning before you get behind
the wheel of your car or anytime you get behind the wheel of your car
you have to know these numbers
Their life depends on it
What if when you got off work and were ready to go to the gym and do your workout you had
to check your blood sugar to see what it was
Right now I'm 147 and I'm dropping so that
means I'm going to do my workout however I'm going to have keep an eye on my watch to make
sure I don't drop too low
If I drop too low I'll have to stop my workout,
eat a little bit of carbs, and then hopefully be able to continue my workout
What if you have a disease and you can deal with it but you just don't want them to have
to deal with it
so you worry every day
What if you have to explain to your children before they can even talk what diabetes is or what
an insulin pump is and why they can't touch the thing on mommy's arm
I woke up at 374
almost doubled the number I went to bed with
It is so frustrating
What if you had a disease, like I said you can't
You have no idea what it does and why
When I'm high you feel so tired You wake up with a headache
It is just so exhausting and so frustrating knowing that I thought that I did everything
fine going to bed last night 169 that was an hour after I ate
I thought everything was okay And then I wake up and double my number
What if you had to constantly explain
what the effect of having a high glucose has on your ability
to communicate
What if it took all day to just feel normal again
What if it took not going to school, what
if it took multiple shots, 16 glasses of water, and no rest at all
What if that's how much it took to feel normal
Diabetics go through this
Diabetics need a cure
What if your very life depended on this incredibly
expensive little vial of fluid every day just to stay alive
What if your life came down to this
inject or die
What if there actually was a cure for diabetes
10's of millions of people worldwide with diabetes ask that what if
every minute, of every hour, of every day, of every year, for
possibly their entire life
What if you were told when you were diagnosed
with diabetes that there would be a cure in 5 years
and you were told that 30 years ago
And what if you were diagnosed with diabetes tomorrow
So what if this was your life
What if this was your child's life
Living with an incurable disease that is so misunderstood
How funny is diabetes now
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