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I absolutely love helping people understand the details of diabetes. I like to know that now there is one more person in the world who knows that carbs are more important than sugar, that it's often quite complicated, and that insulin is not a cure. Part of me wants to spread the wealth of knowledge. Part of me wants to have more join the diabetes "organization" (like the mafia).

Just the other day, a good friend and I got into a conversation about understanding the "lingo" of diabetes. You know...the differences between basal and bolus, a good A1c versus a bad A1c, how the numbers are measured. I was having so much fun explaining it all that when he said he understood it, I was disappointed. I wanted to go into more detail about it all.

Sometimes I find myself spouting off about diabetes related things and getting those perplexed "Huh?" looks in return. My friends and family don't even understand the basics of the insulin pump (continuous insulin, bolusing, and tubing). So when I start mentioning Omnipods, wireless insulin delivery, CGMS, and more, a weird hush comes over the room as if they are too afraid to ask for an explanation.

If only they knew that I appreciate the questions and that I want to explain it all. When they ask, I begin to feel like the burden is shared between my community and me. I start to think that if someone else can help me out because they know when a basal should be changed, then maybe diabetes won't "take over" my life like it so often does.

But then I remember that this simply is my disease. It isn't your diabetes, his diabetes, her diabetes, our diabetes. It's mine. And I'm the diabetes expert in this organization. Sadly, I can't recruit everyone into the diabetes mafia.