Hi Orange, I was diagnosed a type one when I was 31 years old. My children were 2, 4, 6, 8 and ten years old. I got every illness under the sun before I got diabetes and I got it for years after while they were young and in school. Twenty years later, I think I have had EVERY cold and flu on the planet and I rarely get sick anymore.
I understand your frustration at getting diabetes. I hated that my friends didn't have it and I did. But, I learned to live with it watching those same friends getting diseases later in life that were not as easy to live with. All five of my children are diabetes free so far. My oldest is now 30.
Try and accept that you have diabetes and enjoy the fact it is something that makes us live healthy. We all have our pity parties and feel bad that our pancreas is non functioning and others don't have to deal with it. But in life that always seems to be the way of things.
Welcome to the forums. I know you will make some awsome friends and many of these friends WILL have a pump hanging on their waistbands.
