"Damsel in dis Dress" > wrote in message
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> "Nexis" >, if that's their real name, wrote:
>
> >At least he has the support of those around him. It's hard when people
> >around you tell you that you're diabetic "by choice".
>
> WHAT??? People have actually said that to you? How moronic can people
> be? Un<bleeping>believable.
>
> Carol
> --

Two, yes. And they also argue with me telling me that it is "curable". I've
tried to explain that, while it's controllable, it is not curable....to no
end. It is difficult to deal with when you already feel like you're to
blame. Logically, I know it's not the truth. Logically, I know with my
grandmother, my father, my sister and my brother all diabetics (and that's
just immediate family) that it was likely to happen, at some point. But,
emotions aren't really reliant on logic right?
It did help when my doctor told me that it was not fair to me to blame
myself, and that, given my family history, there wasn't a lot I could do to
avoid it that I wasn't already doing. I was just lucky that I caught it when
I did, I guess. I drove out to Minnesota with my mom, and at some point
during the trip I began having pain in my back. I thought, silly me, that it
was the extensive days spent in the car driving. By the time I got home, it
felt like someone had kicked me repeatedly in the back. Turned out it was a
severe kidney infection. I was tested shortly after that, since that was how
my dad found out.

kimberly