The other day I was at the playground with the two toddlers. One of the other mothers was asking me how Olivia was doing and asked about her diabetes.

"She's going to outgrow it, right?"

Me: (silence) Blink. Blink.

Me: Um, no. Her pancreas doesn't work. It doesn't make insulin. It's not going to start making it once she's an adult."

I was trying not to rip my hair out of my head, but inside I was thinking "Good grief, do people still actually think you can outgrow diabetes??! Still?? In this day and age?" The answer is, apparently, yes.

So I did my quick, 30-second spiel on type 1 diabetes, but started getting the glazed-eye look pretty quickly. Then she proceeded to tell me that she knew all about diabetes because everyone in her family has type 2. Ugh.
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The Mr. and I had one of those discussions tonight. The kind where a lot of stuff was laid out on the table, things were gotten off chests, things were explained. Yep, it was one of those where we had both let the little things ball up and they had finally gotten to the boiling point.

One of the things we discussed was what I eat, how I bolus and why my blood sugar can be such a roller coaster sometimes. Not they why behind those things but The Mr.'s lack of understanding of how diabetes works. The simple answer, at least for someone who understands diabetes, is that this is the nature of type 1 diabetes. It just is what it is and sometimes it's unpredictable.

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