I recently "celebrated" my fourteenth anniversary with type 1 diabetes. I wasn't really sure how to celebrate it though. I actually didn't even tell anybody about it. It's not like I was trying to hide it from anyone or the opposite, make a big deal about it, I just didn't give it much thought. Now that I look back at it though, this anniversary actually marks my, "half of life" with diabetes day. I have had diabetes for 14 years now and it is hard to imagine. I look back and reflect on those years, and it blows me away that is has been that long. Time really does seem to fly by. What I find funny is that I really only consider my diabetic years as the ones that really count. In a way, my life got started the day I got the diagnosis.

Now I am happier than ever. I am at a pivotal point in my life and my career and things seem to be going pretty steady. I hope God doesn't have different plans for me though. This better not be some kind of sick coincidence. My first 14 years of life had been going pretty smoothly too. I was coming into my own, being molded into the person that I was supposed to become and then BAM!...diabetes comes knocking on the door. So here it is fourteen years later and I find myself in the same place as before.

I am a good relationship, on the brink of relocating and I'm eyeing an ideal career change in the face. I am working on turning my full time focus into juvenile diabetes. I can't get too caught up in thinking about things too much. It doesn't really matter to me that it is my anniversary. I am planning on being diabetic for a while and each year that passes me be is just another reminder of how old I am getting.

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog today. -Andy