Reply #119: My husband asked if I wanted to mark the day.

[Lurking Dem]

I just couldn't. Although I joked about "maybe by eating an entire Boston Cream Pie".

He argued that I could celebrate my survival but I told him I couldn't mentally get past seemingly celebrating my eventual cause of death and the source of my chronic, debilitating pain.

He understood and the day passed with no mention.

I think the blame game is often even worse for type 2's. "YOU GOT DIABETES BECAUSE YOU'RE FAT!" Patent bullshit. If that were true why do only 20% of obese people have diabetes? You cannot get it without the genetic markers for the disease. Period. And it is compromised insulin use in pre-clinical type 2 that causes obesity in the first place.

Even with type 1 I have been asked if I ate too much sugar when I was a kid. Yikes.

You may remember "back in the day" they would tour new dm patients (kids) through the wards at Jocelin and the patients would explain what Oreo cookie they ate in which year caused the amputation of their leg. I fought very publicly and mostly successfully to rid the medical establishment of the use of the word "compliant".

It was blaming the arrow for missing the target.

I keep thinking public education is getting better but then I see such threads at DU and it really gives me pause.