Kay - All Comments

re: Love

JDVsMom — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:14:54 GMT

Everyone has their own special flavor of crazy. It is what makes each person unique. Your's includes D. Other's includes icky family, bad childhoods, other medical conditions, etc. Any person who runs from your D is not ready to be in an adult committed relationship. There is a reason marriage vows include in sickness and in health, richer, poorer. It is a way to describe that Yes, I love this person unconditionally. Your person is out there. He will love you in spite of and because of EVERYTHING that makes you unique.

re: Love

Michael Nichols — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:51:59 GMT

A bit of wisdom was given to me on this subject a while back.

" Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."- Dalai Lama.

Don't worry Kay many type one diabetics go through the same trials and tribulations including myself. No where is this more true then when it comes to matters of the heart, friendship, and relationships.

The secret is not letting a silly hallmark holiday establish a cycle of doubt abut your worth and meaning in this existence. People are creatures of habit so long as they continue to believe they have no control over their own destinies. Diabetes is crazy but as my grandfather use to say," It takes a lot of really crazy people to change, save and maintain a sane world."

Life is not going to hand anything to us and I believe if you trully desire and believe you need something then you will take the steps to manifest it in your life. Diabetes is just another way of filtering out people who really wont respect you in the way you and all human beings truly deserve to be respected.

Ultimately that is what love really is. The highest form of respect human beings can give one another.

Remeber that as you set about your quests and crusades in this life and I am sure you will find the happiness, peace and understanding you are seeking.

Happy hunting and remeber it is your destiny to craft, no one else will ever have that power but you. Stay strong and determined and you will find what you seek.

re: Love

Kim — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:43:04 GMT

After what you and Pat have already said, there doesn't seem to be much left for me to add! :)

I felt much the same way when I was in my early 20's. I was totally sure that the D was a guy-repellent (or, at least a relationship-repellent), but that's just not the case for most people. Most GOOD people, anyway.

Be patient, oh fabulous one... he's out there. It's just not time yet. :)

re: Love

Pat — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:30:19 GMT

If guys are scared by your diabetes, then they aren't worth it. I'm 25 and I'm in the same boat. I have a lot of my friends getting engaged and everything and I'm wondering where my girl is etc.

You just can't let yourself stress out about it. I guess. :) Plenty of other people in the same boat as you. And the right guy won't mind the diabetes crazy stuff, he'll mind the girl crazy stuff :P

re: Humor

Gail E — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:50:21 GMT

What a great attitude you have towards your diabetes. I have had Type 1 for 52 years (I am 60yrs. young) and have always used my sense of humour to deal with it. There's no point in thinking "Why Me?" - you've just got to get on with life and roll with the punches...laughter works for me every time. I have always known that there are far worse chronic conditions than Type 1 OR Type 2 diabetes and consider myself lucky to have one that is managable and allows me to live my life reasonably easily with the help of a medical health team who works WITH me and allows me to make choices as to how it's managed.

Keep up with your jokes!

re: Really?

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:24:16 GMT

Like!

re: Beeps

Kim — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:19:05 GMT

I share the same feelings. It's funny how pumps and CGMs in some respect give you freedom, but in another sense you're a bit held prisoner! It's like, wow, can you just do your job and quit telling me about it all the time? :)

re: Ignorance

gillian — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:43:19 GMT

urghhh reading that really annoyed me when i didnt have a pump i would always ingect in burger king ..its weird cause thats one of the places i felt like i didnt need to go to the bathroom and give my self insulin

re: Ignorance

kneazle_lady — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:51:56 GMT

I added my comments as well. The letter was not permitted, for some reason. They must have a T1 filter up in hopes of silencing the responses. I put my response below:

If the advertisement in your above notice is correct, then you will welcome my response as a "mainstay of the press" and refrain from dismissing it. There is a population that has been bullied by society for too long, and we are sick of it. We suffer from an autoimmune disorder. We have to take injections of insulin every day, whether we eat or not. One measure of intelligence is the ability to adapt to circumstances outside of one's normal sphere of understanding. Thus, you could look at us, people with Type 1, as measures of an outer world's intelligence. I would rather live in a world which encourages its citizens to be smart enough to adapt to unknown circumstances than one in which a grown adult man can sneer at a young child taking one of countless shots to survive. Which world would you prefer to live in? That young man, along with many other people, takes insulin to live, and not because he ate too much. People with MS are not blamed or shamed for their needs; neither should a person who has an autoimmune disorder. This is not merely an issue about insulin or Type 1. This is about what sort of world we want to, as a society, encourage to exist. Narcissism is a dangerous precedent, one which extracts a heavy price from society.

re: ER

Katie — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:30:20 GMT

That is so scary! I hope you and your endo can figure out what happened and that it doesn't happen again!

re: ER

Katie — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:29:23 GMT

That is so scary! I hope you and your endo can figure out what happened and that it doesn't happen again!

re: ER

Alyssa — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:14:08 GMT

Hugs (yes, again!), Kay! I'm sorry to hear this happened, but I'm rooting for you to get your answers ASAP. Feel better, and you're in my thoughts and prayers!

- Alyssa

re: ER

orange_mms — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:16:19 GMT

I hope that you're feeling better. Don't be embarrassed things happen sometimes (easier said than done, I know). I had a bad experience (a seizure from a hypo) in Math class my 7th grade year in a brand new school. I ended up being taken out on a stretcher in front of the entire 8th grade class at lunch. Talk about being embarrassed, I was at first. The next time I went back to school everyone was so kind and caring towards me, a perfect stranger to most of them. Needless to say I made a few new friends after the fact. Just give your endo a call and see what they think. I hope that they can help you out. Keep your head up and keep smiling. Things will get better.

re: Fiddle-dee-dee

amyl1027 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:42:49 GMT

Your writing is exceptional. It's great to see your positive outlook. Things may not always seem too wonderful, but we do have so much to be grateful. We don't have a lot of the problems that people had before insulin was discovered. I am so grateful that I have a way to handle my diabetes, and I am also grateful that I have my Omnipod. I was almost six when they started trying to figure out what was wrong with me.

re: Fiddle-dee-dee

Alyssa — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:00:18 GMT

Haha, I didn't realize what a poor spelling attempt it had been until it caught my eye. I crossed my fingers: please don't have spelled that wrong....

But alas. :D