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| Italian book of monsters from 1618. |
I can’t say how other people felt when they were diagnosed with Type I Diabetes, but for a long time I felt like I would never be normal again. All of a sudden, I needed to check my blood for sugar and I needed to take shots and carry an emergency kit around if I happened to crash really bad. The school nurse had to send notes to all my teachers and coaches warning them that I wasn't like the other kids. It wasn't as bad as the guy in the picture above, but I certainly wasn't normal anymore.
I remember one time early on in my disease, a doctor tried to scare me into monitoring my sugars more closely. He told me point blank, “Everything is different now. You have diabetes and you need to accept it for what it is. Stop thinking you're normal”...
