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Am I a control freak? A striver? A rebel? Maybe I'm self assured? A slacker? An ostrich? Or am I just along for the ride?

 

Diabetes can really take a toll on your life, your actions, your experiences, and your personality. It challenges your likes and dislikes, your dreams and impossibilities. It's continually stretching you, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

 

For me, diabetes is always present. It never leaves, no matter what I do. My thoughts are riddled with diabetes questions and answers and ideas. My body constantly checks itself to see where my diabetes stands. Everything around me is marked with the signs of diabetes, from the meter in my purse to the prescriptions in my fridge to the test strips everywhere I turn.

 

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Sixteen plus years of diabetes has left me with interesting personality quirks. Since I've never known a life without this disease, I can't really say that I'd be different or not if it wasn't here. But the fact is that it is here and that it weighed on my development, still weighs on my life, and will always be a heavy load upon my shoulders.

 

Diabetes created a strong need for control in my life. I've always been a bit of a control freak, type A personality (that may be hereditary considering my mom and eldest brother are type A's and my personality is all around more like theirs). But the relation between my need for control and diabetes didn't hit me until a few years ago when I read Diabetes Burnout.

 

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In ancient times, the body was said to be controlled by four humours, related to the body fluids blood (sanguine/red), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile (choleric), and black bile (melancholy). In addition to predisposition to certain diseases, an excess of one or another humor was associated with a particular appearance, personality, and/or personality disorder. While the theory is long discredited, the descriptions carry through to today: a sanguine personality is friendly and outgoing; a phlegmatic one, slow-moving or lazy; a choleric one, quick to anger; and a melancholic one, prone to sadness, discontent, or depression. (Interestingly, I haven't been able to find a relationship between diabetes — either major type — and an imbalance of one or more humours.)

 

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I've always been "advanced" for my age. I skipped a grade in middle school. I never found interest in keeping up with the crowds in high school. In college, I never got into the party scene. I was always focused on my work and the next steps.

 

This portion of my personality that looks ahead, plans for the future, and doesn't always live in the "now" has saved me a lot of trouble over the years. For instance, when I couldn't find a job after college, the planner in me had saved enough money to live on and not stress about where my next meal would come from. But there have also been moments where the planner has caused me grief.

 

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I'm a little torn on how to react to President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayer. And this torn-ness is based only on the diabetes issue.

 

Part of me thinks: Way to go! This is awesome! I'm so happy that a high-profile person other than an athlete or actor is bringing light to diabetes and showing that we can indeed do anything and that diabetes is not an obstacle.

 

And part of me thinks: Why is this even a stinking issue? Ok, I know why it's an issue but why should Sotomayer -- or anyone for that matter -- be judged on whether or not they can perform a job simply because of diabetes?

 

It is for this reason that I chose to "hide" my diabetes during my last two job interviews. I wanted to be judged based on my qualifications and my sparkling personality not on whether I was capable of doing a job with diabetes.

 

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Today, I have had diabetes for twenty five years. And I'm not sure exactly how I feel.
I guess, lucky - my body is free, so far, of complications.
I also feel somewhat happy and strong - I mean, I started this journey as a scared, angry little girl and I'm here now - a somewhat accomplished, otherwise healthy, happy woman.
And I feel a little sad - for the weight of diabetes is surely heavy on some days. I don't let myself think of what life might have been like if I'd never been diagnosed - because - really, what would be the point? I think more of the constant juggle and the often unavoidable failures and the sheer relentlessness of diabetes management. And yeah, that makes me sad. (READ MORE)

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Today's d-blog topic - what "they" should know. 

 

I hate that whole "us"/"they" thing by the way.  It makes me feel like I'm some kind of odd creature or warrior in a fight against people with working pancreases.  But that's neither here nor there. 

 

If you don't have type 1 diabetes, you can't know:

 

*What it's like to be completely dependent on insulin to LIVE.  How scary that is.  How frustrating it is.  How much of an inconvenience it can be. 

 

*What it's like to have a bloodsugar impact your mood, your personality - and further, how irritating it is to be reminded that your bloodsugar is having those impacts.  The last thing I want to hear when I'm 299 and pissy is "your high bloodsugar is making you cranky." 

 

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I've faced some hardships in my life. Things that hurt and hindered me, things that took me down on my knees, things that have left lasting impacts and repercussions. I'm sure you've faced hardships like this too. Diabetes can be one of them. It is for me.

 

Because of the timeline and the amount and my own personality in all these hardships, some of those impacts have left deep scars in places that I really don't want them to be. So a good portion of the past few years of my life has been an attempt to work through these issues and get back my life the way I want it.

 

Recently, I started reading a book regarding one of these major issues that have stuck with me in life. It's the kind of book that permeates to several areas, diabetes and health issues included. So as the author spoke today about how loss can affect spirituality, I thought to myself that I knew that.

 

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I haven't ever been the kind of person to party, drink to excess, or stay out at the clubs all night. Maybe it's something in my personality or the way I was raised, but I never really had the interest. I never had that crazy party phase. I don't really want to, although I do enjoy a good night out with friends.

 

Like last night, I went out with some girl friends to watch a local band (one of the girl's husbands is in the band). We met at a Mexican food place then walked over to the bar. The girl I'm friends with is diabetic too, which is a nice thing when you're drinking and dancing and you know someone else there gets this disease.

 

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