A friend posted this on the Catholic Type One Yahoo Group.
I have always believed that if you look for something good in your situation, you will find something good. If you look for something bad, you will find something bad. This video just confirms it for me.
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I really liked this. I think it's so very true. Having had type 1 for almost 32 years (in February), It has become 2nd nature, and he kind of gets to that in this, that "we adapt" and we adapt quickly. I've told Allison (Totus Tuus) that as a kid, I hated the attention I got, I didn't want to be different and let's face it, it still happens, every time I take out my blood sugar monitor or take a shot, in public, someone asks about it. (sorry, I get tired of educating everyone who wants to know about it only to really not understand anyway---including nurses, OH, the nurses at the hospital when I have babies, they are used to Gestational diabetics, so when I come, they actually just let me do my thing, it's pretty funny)
Anyway, I still catch myself sneaking in public my shots and sneaking my testing, hiding it as I do it...I'm good at it now.
As an adult, who has gained weight with every pregnancy and not lost it all with each one (those last 10-15 lbs--you do the math, this is my 6th baby) I'm embarrassed being a diabetic, because people don't understand the difference or that there is a difference between type 1 and type 2. I eat and take care of myself probably better than any one I know.
Anyway, thanks for the video this morning. Great to see. And so very true.
(what I mean by 2nd nature is I don't really know anything else now, I've had it for so long, and I do what has to be done, I have to take care of myself, it's automatic, I don't think every time I take a shot "I hate taking shots" or every time I count carbs, "I hate counting carbs" I just do it, automatically. Does that make sense?)
Might have to post about this...I wrote enough in your comments for a post!!
Jamie Jo,
I am really glad that you wrote such a long comment. As a mother of two children with type one, I often wonder what is going on in my boys head. Tom was so diligent in treating himself when he was just 4, but slowly, he has become less and less concerned about how highs and lows can affect him. I wondered when I read your comment if Tom use to worry that if he ate something or missed a blood test that he would die.
Your comment on taking shots and counting carbs is so true as well. I don't think it each time I do it for the boys. It is just automatic for us as well.
I skimmed your post this morning but I will be back to read it more thoroughly later.
My oldest son loves this.
I think it's really good to have this sort of attitude to type 1. It's part of the "head game" that stops the disease taking over.
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