I changed the title of my blog today as when I was thinking about it, it occured to me that I am writing a kind of guidebook. What then struck me was that usually guidebooks are written by professionals and perfect people who know how to be the perfect version of what they are guiding people with, but I'm not perfect. Go and find me a perfect diabetic! There isn't one, I cannot consider myself as a perfect well controlled diabetic who never wishes she hasn't got it, because I'm not and to think of it, I've never in my life met a diabetic who is a "perfect" diabetic- we all have up days and we all have down days. I can't answer all about diabetes, all I know I know from the doctors, but more so from personal experience.
I used the word "guidebook", but I don't think I'm guiding people. I can't tell people how to live, or that they must do this and this to keep their diabetes in control. It would be wrong of me to do so as I sometimes cannot follow my own rules, and this would make me one of what I hate most, it would make me a hypocrite. Maybe, it's not so much a guidebook, but people can look and identify themselves in me, because we share similar experinces and thoughts and feelings about living with diabetes, and that in itself is good becasue it then means that you can accept that you're not alone.
Notice I refer to myself as an "Imperfect Diabetic", I am. I mess about with my diabetes something chronic when I want to. and I'm not proud of it but I promised I would tell it how it is, ad the reality is that, that sometimes is just the way it goes. And I'm fairly certain that I am not alone in this view, I am not the only diabetic in the whole world who has messed about with their diabetes for whatever reason.
Keep Smiling :)
Love, Tutti-Frutti
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