With any new diagnoses, family members become more concerned about your health.
All my life my family always voiced their concerns, "I'm worried you're going to get diabetes." they said, "You need to lose weight" they said, more or less.
Now that I have diabetes, they voice different concerns, "Is your blood sugar low?", "You shouldn't be eating that you know.", "If you lose 100 pounds, you won't have diabetes anymore". I don't know how true that last statement is but I can see that they care for me. But, this form of caring isn't going to work. I have more on my plate to worry about, yes, and I am taking care of it.
I am at a young enough age to increase my chances of repairing my organs to perfect, or near perfect, capacity. I just need to make small, smart choices.
What would be nice is to see friends and family helping out differently. For example; bring me to a cool new exercise class together, show how happy you are that I am making progress, teach me a neat new recipe for my bento lunches, get me excited about the next upcoming 5k, or whatever. Something that isn't demeaning of my choices, not a pity party.
I got myself into this, I can get myself out.
In time.
Stay sweet everyone!
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