Diabetic Recipes
Woodsy
I feel extra different today.
I think all people with diabetes feel like this every once and a while. That feeling of being different or just feeling like no one understands.
Seeing the candy jars on desks and the bagels in the break room don’t help. Seeing people walking in from the kitchen with a bagel covered in cream cheese and raving about how delicious they are gets to me.
At least it is getting to me more today.
Not that I can’t have those things. I know that I can and I should never feel limited by my disease but having to check my BG, figure out the carb count of whatever I am going to eat, and then take the right amount of insulin to off set those carbs is a lot of work for half a bagel.
That’s makes me different. I cannot just eat what I want when I want without going through all these steps. Sometimes I don’t want to think. I don’t want to have to wait to dig in. At times I have no clue what the carb count is on a piece of cake that is homemade. It is a lot of work.
People see me run to grab my machine and open up my carbohydrate counting book to figure out what to enter into my pump. They see me as different.
I try to act like this disease does not get to me but it does sometimes. Sometimes it makes me feel like I stand out.
I know I am not alone. How do you deal with these feelings when they hit you?
Thanks for the mention G-Money. I'll stay tuned for peoples replies!
Oh, I hear you. I just went to a wedding over the weekend, and the food served at the reception made me feel like a soldier going into enemy territory. No one ever really gets it, not even your loved ones, no matter how hard they try. Thanks for talking about this.
I always feel bad because I know people try but you are right, no one really gets it.
what he says is so very true.
Wowsers.....
It seems JUST when I need it most...I read something on here that makes me say....YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS I AM NOT ALONE.
I just made a post that I was TIRED. I dont want to be a pin cushion anymore..I dont want to have to think about every crumb that goes in my mouth...I dont want to exercise everyday. I dont want to drink my weight in water everyday.
I am TIRED of this disease....and I have had it for 38 years. So what if I die...I have to die of something...we all die. ( can we say extreme thinking???)
But you know, we do have control of the QUALITY of life we choose. When I was diagnosed in the early '70's I had a glass needle I had to boil, and I had to go to the hospital every Friday so they could drawl a vile of blood. This was even before pee tests came out!
This is an every day, every moment disease. I will check back often to see how others post. But all I can say? Is...you are NOT alone. We ALL feel this way from time to time...When you TYPED cream cheese my mouth watered.
(sigh)