| Hi Michelle, welcome! I'm sorry you had to go through all that with your mom. I lost my mom due to diabetic complications (actually 13 years ago today).
With your strong family history, you do have a good chance of developing diabetes at some point in your future....but not everyone with a family history automatically gets diabetes.
Live your life, enjoy each day, but do make some smart choices that will keep you and your family healthy. Eat right, get regular exercise and regular physical exams and blood work so that if you do progress to T2, you'll know before you've had it too long.
We don't have to follow in the footsteps of our mothers.
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 | 
