is anyone on here thankful for getting diabetes???
i kinda feel like i am because it's made me more mature and stuff
my family doesnt really agree with me on this, but i think it's true
I am!! Well, I think I'm glad for the positive things its brought into my life and the ways I have benefited from it. I'm not sure if thats the same thing as thankful for diabetes itself so much as thankful for what I have gotten out of it, but I will say yes :)
I'm not.
Ooh, DDrumminMan :( Not even for the positive things that have come from it? There has to have been something that was a pro, even if there are a million cons. Just one?
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm thankful that I have the disease, but I am not resentful of it. Like you said it has definitely made me more mature and helped me make the decision to become a nurse.
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Ooh, DDrumminMan :( Not even for the positive things that have come from it? There has to have been something that was a pro, even if there are a million cons. Just one?
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Sorry Alyssa, can't think of anything. I was a Marine when diagnosed so I was already disciplined and not a slacker! I don't resent it. It is life for me. I'm just thankful to still be alive. If I had been born 55 years before I was, I'd a been dead at 19. Timing is everything!
i'm also thankful for the oppurtunites it has given me (diabetes camp... meeting the jonas brothers on friday b/c of the ada)
i've only had diabetes for like 3 months but i already feel thankful for some of the aspects
i wouldn't necessarily say i'm thankful for diabetes. i went through a lot because of it that i would have been able to avoid otherwise. the path my life is on right now (which is a damn good one) is because of diabetes. it makes me wonder where i would be, who i would be, and what i would be doing if i never had diabetes. i do realize i would be a completely different person. i don't spend too much time thinking about the "what ifs" simply because i know i could drive myself crazy with them. i am in a good place right now and i had to work incredibly hard to get there. life has been more difficult with diabetes, but it has never held me back. no, i'm not thankful for it--but i realize without it everything would have changed.
I'm not really glad I have it but it has definatly changed my life! (In a good way). I've started taking better care of myself and I eat healthier and everything. It's really made me open my eyes. I see the world in a different way now. I really took my life for granted and I didn't really realize how lucky I was till it was gone. I guess the saying is true: That you don't realize how good you have it until you have nothing. BTW: I'm not saying I have nothing.
It has made certainly made me more compassionate and that I am thankful for!
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i wouldn't necessarily say i'm thankful for diabetes. i went through a lot because of it that i would have been able to avoid otherwise. the path my life is on right now (which is a damn good one) is because of diabetes. it makes me wonder where i would be, who i would be, and what i would be doing if i never had diabetes. i do realize i would be a completely different person. i don't spend too much time thinking about the "what ifs" simply because i know i could drive myself crazy with them. i am in a good place right now and i had to work incredibly hard to get there. life has been more difficult with diabetes, but it has never held me back. no, i'm not thankful for it--but i realize without it everything would have changed.
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C,
I will have to agree with your response 100%
What do you guys think we would have been like without diabetes?
Well since, I was diagnosed with type 1 at the age of 25 I kind of know. Not too much different than I am now. But, I know I would not have been as active as I am with non profit organizations or into message boards and social media as much as I am now.
I am not thankful for diabetes because i have so many complications from it from lack of diabetic education. The only thing i could possibly be thankful for is this disease bringing my brother( who also was type 1 diabetic) and I closer as brother and sister. But diabetes took him away from me in Oct 08. So now i am even more depressed and resentful! Diabetes sucks in every form of the word!
I wouldn't say im thankful for having Diabetes but grateful for what i have learned from having it
Crystal,
I am so sorry to hear about your brother.
Thank you Gina!
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I wouldn't say im thankful for having Diabetes but grateful for what i have learned from having it
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well said
I'm not "thankfull" but I know I would not be the person I am today and have the compassion I have for others if it was not for diabetes. Feeling sorry for yourself does nothing-trust me I still have pity-parties for myself once in a while! I keep saying things happen for a reason, I'm not sure why exactly I got so "blessed" with diabetes, but I know one day I will figure it out!
Crystal,I am sorry to hear about your brother.I hope things with your d care are better and that you are better.