My husband was diagnosed with diabetes around 1998. He was in the hospital for a different problem when the doctor discovered the diabetes. The doctor came into the hospital room with a look on his face that said "you are going to die." I was waiting for news like "you have incurable cancer." Only to find out that my husband was diabetic. I grew up in a family with diabetes, I could give my grandmother her insulin shots before I started school. I knew then that diabetes could be controlled with diet and exercise and in some cases medicine or insulin. To me this was not a dire diagnosis but the look on the doctors face would make somebody think it was. Today my husband is on two different types of insulin, slow acting and fast acting. He checks his blood sugar levels regularly and takes his shots as he needs them. Diabetes is not a death sentence but it is a life changing experience. It is simply changing your eating habits and exercising more. That's how it was for us.

Donna
Hersey, MI