We were chatting and he asked me how long I have been living with diabetes. Since that day I learned to take control of how to manage my diabetes myself and honestly, after all these years, I have to say that it is not that hard as long as you have the will and motivation.Įarlier this month I was at the hospital for my diabetes check up where I ran into my peer Jaco with whom I also share the same doctor. One day, when I saw a mother feeding a 6 months old baby with diabetes, I told myself that if a young mother can manage to keep her baby healthy, I am also able enough to make decisions on how I should manage this chronic disease and grow older with it. “How come you get a disease of rich people when you are poor?”, “Are you injecting drugs?”, “Stay and drink beer with us!” No matter how they bullied me, I did not give up. Every evening I would go to the bar for my insuline shot and people would always make fun of me. I was not old or some super rich kid! And then there were the weird stories… I was using insuline which had to be kept cool, and since we did not have a fridge, I had to keep it in a fridge at a local bar as these were the only places with a fridge at the time. For example that diabetes was for the elderly or super rich. There was a lot of stigma and myths around diabetes. Suddenly it seemed that everything delicious contained those unhealthy sugars! That year I did not abandon school only, I also had to give up on my favorite sugary and fizzy drinks, and many foods. I had to stop that school year just one month before final A-level examinations. Back then I was living at a boarding school, and you cannot imagine how hard it was for me to cope with diabetes while on boarding school food.
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