When Andrés says that we must not compare with the worst, it is a way of saying not to fall into the minimization of the weight that implies carrying this disease every day.Compare we always compare ourselves because that is how human behavior is, but it is not that we select with those who compare ourselves.It is obvious that no one is satisfied with having diabetes, which differentiates us in speech is mainly the experience and stages of life.
I do not know anyone's life here, only that we are diabetic.People use different strategies not to fall into that paranoia spiral of diabetes, but we cannot minimize their effects on our lives.Comparing myself with someone who was worse is a bad strategy, but someone works for him.
I notice that most of those who are exhausted are the ones who have dealt for a longer time with this disease, the type I that came as a young man.And the reason is clear!It is not the same to have diabetes with 20 years to have it with 50, and to add, it is not the same to have diabetes for 5 years than to have started it in the last century.It is not for taking prominence to type II or whom the diabetes already old or more recently came to them, because it would sincerely give prominence on this occasion.Who live this disease from young people, they know what I'm talking about ...
Recently, looking for answers in the forum, I read someone who had young diabetes 10 years ago and told how diabetes "never abandons you" putting an example that for some reason was very representative.II laughed and cried ... In such an example, I said a lot.Diabetes accompanies you, always and forever: permanently in your head, in all your activities, in your social and public life, in your private life, in your future for complications, it does not leave you when you are on vacation or when you arehaving sex.The name of this disease is as a load, more mental than physical (although also physical).
And here two things, being 12 or 20 years old and knowing what a whole life with diabetes awaits you implies another greater weight.The other one, I think that being older relieves the load because as the years go by, a less agitated and improvised life is required, and that allows some people to get better the diabetes and their routine demands.I also read many who started young people with type 1 and make contributions full of wisdom, but do not minimize the load or compare to anyone.I am left with it.
Another thing that I also notice is that in the forum all of us who think are users of insulin pumps or continuous glucose monitors.Those who continue using ribbons are not, not because they have renounced but because they have another experience, similar to that of those who had to face the beginning of the disease many years ago.Again, I would give the prominence here, but it is easy to be optimistic when you did not have to make up and frustrate with a system that makes it more difficult, chronifying your illness and making the treatment inaccessible.In Uruguay, the tapes began to be given as a mutualist ticket only in 2009 and a box per month (before they were inaccessible by prices) and the free freestyle can be purchased at a price that is not subsidized and is not cheap, justFrom 2020 (if you wanted to buy it before, you had to go to Argentina).I can pay free freestyle but unfortunately there are many people who don't.That hurts and frustrates, rather than leaving myself satisfied because I can have good control unlike those who cannot pay it .. it would be like comparing me with those who are worse and sincerely it does not work for me!When I read that a possible cure is about to come out,I always calculate the time it could take to reach me, and after a while, between the first give access to the children, the bias between Europe and Latin America, the costs it can imply, etc.Maybe so many years and experiences with diabetes make a big difference ..