Living for You and Me
April is here, and that means it’s time for another DSMA Blog Carnival post from My Diabetic Heart. This month’s topic is a question from the DSMA twitter chat on March 16th about Life Stages with Diabetes. It asks: “How did relationships with other people help inspire you to take care of yourself?” You’ll find my answer below. Enjoy! I’ve thought long and hard about this question since it was raised during DSMA last month, and about the answer that I tweeted that night. Q4: Well, the thought of my significant other having to deal with losing me was pretty strong motivation to keep fighting. Our health problems, be it some type of diabetes, congestive heart failure, cancer, etc…, did…
I’ve Just Kept Living
The DSMA Blog Carnival topic for the month of February is “The most awesome thing I have done in spite of diabetes is . . . . “ Here’s my entry: I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the topic since it was first announced at the beginning of the month, trying to come up with my response. I’ve thought of a hundred different ways to reply. There have been so many awesome things that I’ve done since I was diagnosed two years ago. How does one rank the awesomeness of the things he or she does? Oh sure, I guess I could list all of the things I’ve done and rank them 1 to 10 on the awesomeness…