| Hello!
My mother had diabetes but it's cancer who took her away from us. Her mother, my grand-mother, had diabetes too... and died from what they call today Alzheimer's... at the age of 89. And let me tell you, until she reached 85 or so she was hard to follow! Uncommon energy. Always smiled and sang. It IS possible to live WITH diabetes. And my grand-father lived to be 87 with a serious heart condition... Since I was this high I was told : 'Enjoy your grand-father's company this Christmas, it may be well his last!' ... I was told the very same thing for... 20 years!!!
Sometimes the outlook seems bleak... but you never know, do you?
I don't think your post frightened anyone Liz. Well at least it didn't frightened me. Isn't death very much part of life after all?
I've done a bit of accompanying... people in the final stage of cancer... and from both this and personal experiences I find it sad that when someone loses a loved one... well everyone seem to flee. As if grieving, being upset, (being affraid too!) is obscene. Quite normal I think to have all those feelings when we lose someone close, especially when we have a disease in common. It shakes me to the core too! But such is life... and since we don't know how much time we have left nor how much quality there will be to that time left... better enjoy it as much as we can. And I believe that our loved ones wouldn't want us to do anything less.
Take care Liz,
Marie  | 
