12.21.2006

Sigh

The Dilemma:

Really wanting to sit and eat brownies today.

VS.

Knowing my body will have a sh*t-fit if I do.


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9 comments:

  2. No, I had one (small), but I could've eaten half a pan. Thanks for caring tho ;)
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  4. You did good with only one!!!
    This time of year is SOOOO hard isn't it?!?!?
    Good luck getting thru the rest of the week!!!!
    Thanks for your kind words...see you next week!
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  5. Gary - Type II, just diganosed in February, so this is my first Christmas having to deal with all the crap I'm not supposed to eat. Sometimes it's tough. But my sister and my dad and my grandmother are also type II, so we all wallow together.

    Donna - Thanks for the encouragement, I know you have to cope with the junk food, too, how do you manange? Looking forward to seeing you next week.
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  6. Lily,
    My son is type 1, and have been for the past 10 years. At first he was very cautious with his diet. Then as he moved into his teen years, he simply adjusted his insulin. Not the ideal situation. Now he's on the pump. But I assume that yours is controlled by oral meds, diet, and exercise? I'm borderline, so I really need to make some lifestyle changes. Oh, and I need to start flossing too.
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  7. I'm very sorry that your son has to live with this. As an adult it's easy to feel sorry for myself, but I also have known for 10 years that I could have prevented it, and I have to own that.

    But my heart goes out to kids that have to grow up with this and never had the opportunity to have any control over it.

    I have a cousin, she's, gosh, 21, I think, but she was diagnosed with type I when she was 5. During her adolescent years she did what your son does, I think it's normal. It's a rebellion against this chronic illness and I don't fault them for that except for the fact that it's so hard on their bodies. But my cousin did mature in her attitude and does pretty well, now.

    I do know that as teenagers we all rebel in some way - for some of us it was drinking or drugs or sex or street racing or whatever. For some the rebellion was less obvious or less destructive, but for diabetics sometimes it's "I'll eat whatever I want and just increase my meds or insulin." It's the wanting freedom to make our own choices that causes any kind of rebellion, ... there's some spiritual lesson in that somewhere....

    I have to watch for type I in my kids (I had gestational diabetes with both of them which increases their risk) and it's hard - but I test them randomly and I know what to look for and I pray I haven't passed this on to them, but if I have, I pray that I recognize it early.

    I am controlled with a combination of meds, diet, exercise and weight loss. It's tough, I won't kid you. I knew I had it coming for 10 years - with the gestational diabetes, then my dad was diagnosed, then my sister. But I chose to ignore it. It's not fun to face. But I got to party (read: eat limitless amounts of crap and not exercise) for the first thirty-some years of my life, now I will have be diligent for the rest of my life as consequence. (Sometimes I wish they would teach against over-eating and not exercising in the schools like they teach against drugs.)

    Maybe look at it this way: do whatever your doctor says you need to do in order to prevent the onset of type II for yourself, and think of it as being supportive of your son, showing him by example that diabetes can be managed and that life doesn't have to be limited because of it.

    Honestly, life is a lot better for me now, because I used to have no energy and was not able to do anything active. I tell you the best thing for me was simple: I bought a good treadmill and set it up in the basement in front of a TV - it helps me to be distracted from the idea that I'm exercising - which I think is evil (exercise, I mean). But I have no choice - well I do have a choice, I can go on insulin, but who want's to choose insulin over a treadmill, given the option?

    So it's a blessing in disguise. It's God telling me that He can't let me go on doing what I was doing because it would shorten my life and ruin the quality of it, and that's just not in His plan for me.

    I don't know if I've said anything helpful here, I don't always know what to say to someone who has a child with a chronic illness. So if I've said something wrong, forgive me.

    Anyhow, The End.
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  8. How do I do it?? It's sure not easy....if I don't think there will be sugar-free options at where ever I'm going...I'll take something with me...
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  9. Lily,
    You've said nothing that even comes close to being offensive. Nothing to forgive.

    Congratulations on taking steps to deal with your own diabetes. A blessing in disguise sounds like a good way to look at it. I'm glad you have more energy now. I'm at the low end of the energy scale right now. I think that's a combination of my weight, poor cardio-conditioning, borderline depression, and perhaps the effects of the radiation from last summer (supposed to be at its worst at six months).

    I have an elliptical trainer, but I hate using it. My wife hates it too, and uses the treadmill in our bedroom, but I am over the max weight for that machine.

    Oh well. I hope the Christmas feasting season goes well for you. I know how tough that can be.
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