[Dewey]

Originally Posted by Injecto

Perhaps this should be in another thread but I'm going to ask here anyways, for now. How can you, and others, say that you don't think about your diabetes that much? I think that's great that you can be like that and I really want to be like that myself. Unfortunately for me it consumes my thoughts almost every minute of my waking day. I constantly think about where I am, too high, too low, what if I sit all day at work will I go high, but I don't want to bolus too much to go low, is my basal right, what will happen to my BGs whem I get active. I worry about complications by the time I'm 50 when I still have at least another 20 years to live. Will I retire? Will I have enough $$$ to help my condition if I live to retirement? Am I already hypoglycemic unaware? etc.....

Don't get me wrong, I would love to just not think about it too much, but in order to not think about it too much I fear I won't be able to control it. I'm at a loss here.

It's not that I don't think about it much ('cause I check my bg 10 to 15 times+ per day), it's just that it doesn't bother me to think about it. I don't worry about what will happen in 20 to 30 years...He**, after suddenly losing my dad at 16 years of age (he was 39 and died from a brain aneurysm), I've learned to simply worry about the here & now. I may or may not make it to tomorrow due to any number of circumstances, so why kill myself stressing over "what ifs"? I'm just happy that I have a condition/disease that CAN be controlled.

I keep a good eye on my bgs and everything, and spend a great deal of time reading & researching about Diabetes (and Cancer, etc..), so I feel quite comfortable with where I am in life. As for Cancer....I think I worry more about Carwy and our other friends who have had or have it, than I do about Diabetes.

Each of us is different, and as such, handle our Diabetes & lives differently. No one way is more correct than another.