sherpa41 said:
When I debuted with 25 years I also did adventure sports and all possible crazy things.
Until I realized that instead of thinking about what I was doing, there was all the most pending activity of sugar, the next meal or punctured and did not enjoy anything.I threw myself for a mountain or descended a river, and I did not realize for always thinking about the other.
If I had an equal sensor it would have been better but now with 50 years I already tell you that I am interested less than anything.And if I had 25 again, I think it's what I would least want to do again.Although of course with the best material and a team of doctors watching in real time, even the most fearful diabetic does.
The really hard thing is to be alone in a work daily downloading boxes (or similar) with few breaks to eat or click.With the right material and also fails from time to time.
My father, with 74 years they have put a sensor.He says they have taken his freedom.It only is pending all day of the same, of his beeps, and when not, to see why he does not whistle, to see now that I go out to his daily walk, to see how I am ..... instead of beingIn life.Since it was diabetic he gives his walks.Before without a sensor he enjoyed his walk and if he noticed something, he ate something or acted accordingly and ready.He says that they will forget about the true sensor, his body (the sensations of his body) and that he loses enjoy the bed (and other things), to see if he is going up, going down or doing the pine (things that before the sensor barelyThey worried him).They give sensors but do not prepare psychologically.In addition, he sees that he has the usual ups and downs, with or without a sensor.The only thing that corrects them before but they do not stop appearing from time to time and as he says, they will not stop appearing, but would not be diabetic.
I understand you perfectly.
There is a lot of pressure that put us endocrine, family, other diabetics ..... for having to be perfect.I am diabetic and I have to assume it.In diabetes 1+1 they are not always 2. That perfect control is impossible.If not it would not be diabetic.I have to accept it.I am diabetic and not obsess so much.Thus there are anxieties, depressions, anguish ... and all those things that are read in other posts.Sometimes I perceive an envelope that we get to have to be 100%.I think you have to adapt your diabetes to your life and not your life to diabetes.If you do so, you lose what your life was and that feeling of loss generates all that frustration.You are diabetic, it is the only thing that has changed in your life.AdaptateIf you adapt the diabetes to your life, as those athletes do, you will reach the top of your Everest, but most importantly, you will reach it without fear, without anguish, enjoying it (with or without diabetes you only live once. If those athletes can;And not everyone has great medical teams, many have more than their self -knowledge, I know several; you can also.
I refuse for diabetes to condition my life.I still jump in parachute, learning to pilot Ulms, to get the title of aquatic lifeguard, bike races, training and karate competitions or kick box .......... and doing a thousand things.We adapt, my diabetes and me, to the situation and enjoy this only life that I have.That when I am going to die, I do not have to regret all the things I wanted to enjoy and do and that I prefer myself.Salu2