I'm cool...say it!

Our blog today is by Soara-Joye.

Happy Friday d-folk! Just checked my bgl…141! Yes! Lantus…8 units. Novolog…1 unit. And thank God it didn’t hurt this time!

So, I’m about to lay my head on the pillow to go to sleep like a new born baby in her momma’s arms and I think about my day and about how blessed I am.

I was talking to my girlfriend the other day about how having diabetes is soo frustrating and such a pain in the booty! The unexpected lows. The unexpected highs. The fact that I feel soo tired a lot of the time and that I have to stop and check, stop and eat, stop and check ALL of the time! The fact that it’s constantly on my mind and therefore on my lips being talked about invariably. Ugh! Give me a break!  I apologized to her for bringing it up soo much since she’s the one I tell all my betesness to. I mean, GEEZ, I’m sick of talking about it!  I was sure she was sick of hearing about it and I wanted to give her permission to say so, ya know?

Well, you will NEVER guess what her response was. She said, “It’s cool. Having diabetes is cool. You get to carry around a meter, you have a dbag, and you get to give yourself insulin. You’re not like everyone else! You’re different, you’re special. I think it’s cool.”  HUH? COOL? REALLY? Lol! Now that I think about it, someone else told me the same thing a little while ago. She told me that when she was in junior high school there was this girl who was the coolest in the school and she had type 1. She confessed to me that she wanted to be just like that girl; diabetes and all!

Now, of course, if she really knew what it entailed she probably would not have wanted it. But, perhaps I don’t need to go that deep. Perhaps I can take those comments and let them marinate in my mind for the reason they were intended; to edify me! Perhaps we  need to consider that we ARE just that…COOL. WE are the cool kids, ya’ll!  Special. Not like any one else! The ONLY ones chosen to handle such a feat. How about that? In this moment…I like that. You?