So here we are, that's me over there, to the right. Gwynneth Evans, I am a type 1 diabetic, and no it does not make me special or disabled, it makes me who I am today, and I wouldn't be me with out my Diabetic diagnosis. I apologise in advanced for spelling mistake, grammatical errors and so on, but I don;t care? I cant spell, and I have never been able to. That one up there is on purpose ,i'm testing you, so watch out.
Summary of diagnosis -
I was 14, and going into my first year of GCSE's, My mother was also a diabetic, she passed away a year before my diagnosis to Meningitis, completely unexpected and out of the blue, that's another story. I hadn't been feeling to great for a while, Moody, (not out of the ordinary for a 14 year old) lost a big of weight, which did not bother me at all, I was always thirsty and always peeing. Your standard symptoms, one day I gathered the courage to test my blood on my mums old blood glucose monitor, bearing in mind i had never put a needle to my body in my life, I knew I had to do it. There it was, blood glucose of 28. My dad took my to the doctors, where they sent me straight to hospital, and i spent the next few hours being told I had to inject this stuff into me to live, I was given all these gadgets and I was sent on my way home. Overwhelmed nothing sank in and I didn't know what I was suppose to do. I made my Dad do my injections for a week, until he had to go away to work and I was forced to do it alone.
After this time everything was a bit of a blur, I took my long acting insulin at night, but did not ever bother with my meal time insulin, and my blood sugars where never good, I wouldn't know as i didn't bother testing them for so very long. I just wanted to be a normal teen
Moving on -
Skip a few years, for all you diabetics you'll understand this, TESTING IS IMPORTANT, we need to do it, we need to get our little finger pricker out and we need to prick our fingers, and we have to know or BG level. Over the years you know what your bloods are by how you feel (ill go into that another time). So if your newly diagnosed, don't be Naive, TEST, TEST AND TEST! I cant put any more pressure on its importance.
My daily routine 9 x years after diagnosis involves 2 x injections of Levemir (long lasting) of 60 units, and 4 x injections of Novarapid (fast acting) with each meal, then another 4 x injections of the Novarapid to stable my bloods out, its a lot of insulin making me now a bit of a plumper woman, insulin makes you a bit chubby, and keeps you that way. HELLO cellulite where the needles go.
I have no sympathy of any girl/woman moaning about cellulite, I have to have it.
Side tracked a bit there,
Living with diabetes is not easy, its not fun, and it really is not normal, if you let it take over. I have in the past year learnt to embrace it, its apart of who I am, it makes me a fast thinker, a multi tasker and a time keeper. It gives me intelligence in a subject i quite frankly get asked the most retarded questions about. and really does just make me, ME?
Imagine a normal persons morning routing, then add being diabetic on to that, i have at least ten more things to think about in the morning before you even spread your butter on your toast.
I have recently decided to do a bit of charity fundraising for DIABETES UK, i am jumping out of a plane, woohoo (NAT) its going to push me to my limits, BUR FIRST, I need to loose weight to do it, hard being a insulin taker but I am trying my hardest. wish me luck, LINK IN BIO if your kind enough to throw some pennies at my cause, giving something back to these scientists and there experiments who keep my heart pumping, blood flowing and body moving.
Ill also be doing he 1,000,000 steps challenge starting on July 1st, with diabetes uk, yes! you hears me right, 1 million steps.
wish me so LUCK!
I'm hoping to have the body of a Victoria Secret Model by New years day 2018, not really I like being a chubby gal.
That's it for today, I still have a Friday night hangover. Its a bit of a bish bash of info, but I have a lot of stories and all the time in the world? so i will leave it there for tonight.
GOOD NIGHT,
TEST, TEST, and TEST.
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