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Diabetes is a thief.
Diabetes is an insidious disease. It steals your life in so many ways.
It not only puts you at risk to lose your eyesight and limbs. It increases your risk of heart disease, kidney failure and more.
It steals hours, days, years from your life here on earth.
It steals your energy.
It steals your time as you have to monitor blood sugars, monitor food intake, etc.
It steals your money. Diabetes medications and supplies are priced incredibly high (even with insurance).
It steals your enjoyment for food (even healthy food) as it plants the constant reminder of possible high (or low) blood sugar complications of every bite.
It steals your resolve to lose weight because many diabetes medications cause you to gain or retain weight. To get off of them, you have to drop pounds they have caused you to gain. Dropping weight is made two or three times more difficult because the meds actually make it extremely difficult to shed ounces...much less pounds.
It steals your feeling of being normal.
It steals your self-respect as you spend time berating yourself for "allowing yourself" to do all of the things that could have prevented you from being on medications in the first place and your willingness to accept managing the disease rather than doing to hard work to me medication free.
It damages your interactions with others because of how you look, or what you have to do in social situations to keep things balanced (like excusing yourself before a meal to administer a shot in your belly before eating).
Did I mention, it costs a fortune!?! I know I did, but I can't emphasize it enough.
It costs you more than money.
It inflicts worry.
It inflicts fear.
It inflicts complications (like not healing as quickly from even the most minor cut).
Diabetes is a thief!
Mine is going to "jail"....I will no longer let it control my life or steal my time, money or LIFE!
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