It’s been nine years since I was diagnosed with diabetes. It seems like almost yesterday when I was racing down the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the back seat of my parents car going to the emergency room with that 858 blood sugar. Every year I look back and reflect at all the positives that have come from diabetes. We can easily look at the negatives of being diagnosed with diabetes, but that brings you down and puts you in a bad mood, so it’s the positives that I try to always reflect on.
In these nine years I have:
- Gone from MDI to wearing a Pump
- Gone from testing 10 times a day to wearing a CGM
- Gone from never hearing of blogging to writing a blog
- Gone from working as a marketing assistant for a diabetes company to owning my own marketing company
- Gone from knowing 1-2 people with diabetes to thousands
- Gone from thinking I was alone in this fight against diabetes to realizing that was nowhere near the truth
- Gone from not traveling and speaking at conferences / meetings to being invited to hundreds of them
Most importantly, I moved to a new state after diagnosis and met the love of my life and am getting married in 3 months.
Here’s looking back at those nine years and looking forward to many more.
Happy nine year mark, Chris! You’ve got an awesome list going there!