20 'Diabetic' things about me

1. I love reading nutrition labels on food
2. I love exercising
3. I have always had a difficult time with morning blood sugars – they’re always so stubborn!
4. I have never told a potential employer I have diabetes before first being given the job
5. I can’t drink diet coke or coke zero after 2pm... I have a really weird night’s sleep otherwise!
6. I still can’t make my mind up about an insulin pump but think the OmniPod could be awesome...if it was affordable in Australia!
7. Alcohol affects me really quickly
8. I’m in my 16^th year of Diabetes and still learning everyday...and I find that exciting
9. Having diabetes if often a good conversation piece and a way of quickly getting to know someone
10. Jellybeans don’t count as an enjoyable treat/lolly to me anymore...unless of course I’m having a ravenous low
11. I have three blood meters!....yes i can be a bit of a worry wart!
12. I try not to have too much artificial sweeteners in my diet – instead I’ve been using Stevia or avoiding them totally
13. The Babysitters Club was the first movie I ever saw a Type 1 diabetic character in
14. I can’t stand watching the needle go in when I get my HbA1c done...and talk the entire time to distract myself.
15. A teacher yelled at me in class one day for ‘distracting everyone’. I was in one of those ‘on a mission’ trances trying to get to the lemonade which was kept in a cupboard at the back of the room for me. It was a relief teacher and my friends tried to explain but he still requested that one of my parents come in to see him. Mum made him apologise to me!
16. Winding roads tend to make my blood sugars high
17. I’m constantly ripping recipes out of magazines...but hardly ever make any of them!
18. The owner manager at the first place I ever applied for a job at thought that having Type 1 Diabetes must have meant that I was a ’sickly, weak and fragile child’
19. I am determined to get a better HbA1C this year
20. I want to use my journey with diabetes to make a difference