I said I'd Make a start

Brand New to Blogging and still new enough to the World of Diabetes. It was about four weeks after my 23rd Birthday (9 months ago) and I was pretty ill. I had had times like this in the past so I just ignored it over a few weeks. The usual story prevailed with me up and down to the bathroom at night and as many times during the day. Excessive thirst, feeling lethargic, significant and sudden weight loss. Everything was screaming DIABETES at me but I was too busy or too stubborn or just plain stupid to care enough to actual go to the Doctor. Eventually I did go and innevitably I was told I had Type 1 Diabetes and it was not like a puppy for Christmas....... this was for LIFE.

It's difficult now to look back at that day and the days in Hospital that followed, without seeing a significant Vague blur. Everything seemd to not be real in many respects. Everything seemed to halt to a jerking stop, for an instant in the GP Surgery where I had my initial check-up and then as if I felt it were some insignificant inconvenience to my prioritised commintments and distractions.... I pretty much dismissed it. I began to worry about how my parent's would feel, how it would affect others in the long term as well as every day life. I haven't yet sat down and disected how exactly I felt, perhaps I never will. I know a lot of what I did do. For instance I fought tooth and nail with my lecturers in the coming weeks to not have to defer the college year (which I was successful in doing). However I really don't know exactly why I did that. I'm hopeful that as I share my trials and tribulations, sucesses and failures in everyday living a Diabetic life I might just enlighten myself and even just one other along the way.