change in blog

When I originally created this blog, I was supposed to write about what I was thinking. Of course, that didn'thappen. I got overwhelmed, stress took it's toll and it nearly cost me my life.

Since I was discharged, I've realized that unless you have type 1 diabetes, no one understands how much my world has changed. So I've decided to turn this blog into a diabetes awareness/update where I will write about how the disease affects my everyday life. Many of us had no clue how serious diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is until I went into it twice. Which means, none of us realized how serious and fatal diabetes can be.

What you do need to know is that my diabetes is stress induced. It seems that I started to show symptoms around August of 2007. I could blame a lot of people and a lot of situations I found myself in on the disease but I'm starting to think it was gradual wear and tear. I always knew that one day the stress from losing dad, taking care of mum and all the other little obstacles God decided to bestow on me would take it's toll on me and obviously it came in the form of this evil evil disease. Over the past two weeks how stress raises my blood sugar has become apparent. As long as I don't think or freak out like the spazzmonkey I am, I have normal to low blood sugar. This means I hae to find ways to control my stress and what better way than to write about it. After all, studies have shown that written disclosure not only helps you psychologically but improves your immune system. And I really need to work on this autoimmune disease.

Feel free to comment on anything. But if you do, I would appreciate it if you leave your name with your comment. I don't like anonymous comments, they tend to piss me off and make me think the person who does that is a coward. Own up to your voice, your right, don't shirk away. That or don't comment. This is restated at the bottom of the blog page.

Also please don't correct me if I have spelling or gramatical errors. It took me 2 days to be able to speak this time and even longer to be able to express my thoughts without stopping mid sentence trying to figure out how to say the word I was thinking. So please bear with me. One day I will be able to speak and write with the eloquence everyone remembers me for.

So happy readings and welcome to my type 1 life.