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Just the other day I was speaking with a group of co-workers about different life changing events in the life of someone with diabetes. As we sat there and talked about it I began to reflect on my own. I thought about the different times in my life such as diagnosis time, school, relationships, complications, and work. All things that every person living with diabetes can relate to, or will eventually deal with.

Where were you when you were diagnosed? What were you doing that day or at that particular time in your life? Were you at work? Were you at school? Did you go into a coma or diabetic ketoacidosis? Was your vision so blurry, that like me, you realized you couldn't see the picture on the t.v.?

What if you've had diabetes so long you can't remember life without it? Now that you're older you've had your own unique life changing events, like the first time you started school or the first time you told somebody about your disease (I don't like the word disease, it sounds too ugly).

Can you remember when you started your first job or when you learned of your first complication from diabetes (complication is another one of those ugly words)?

What about relationships? When you enter into one there are usually plenty of apprehensions. You might be concerned about what the other person will think of you. You may be worried of their lack of understanding? You may be afraid to discuss it with them,period! You may also have fears of marriage and or pregnancy or having a child.

What thoughts or memories do you have when you look back or when you think of different life changing events that have happened to you or that are yet to happen? How did they affect you?

Please feel free to share them with the world and leave a comment below!

Thanks. -Andy.