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As everyone knows from previous posts here and talking to me, my dad is a type one diabetic and when I was ten years old I brought him around from a hypo purely by chance! That was only cause my Momma drummed it into me at an early age with me 'If Daddy starts shaking and Grabs Mommy or another adult by the hand he needs sugary stuff,' I am ever thankful to my Momma teaching me that. I love my Dad and I see him face diabetes and marvel at how he doesn't let it hold him back.

Just today I was di… Continue

Diabetes is really no joke to anyone, or at least it shouldn't be. But with my family we take my dad's diabetes so seriously. Always checking up on him making sure he's eatting and snacking enough to keep himself at a safe level. I know what it feels like to have someone to shake you awake and ask you to find something with sugar in it for when someone you care about is low. Diabetes is something I both admire and fear. I don't admire it in a way that I wish I had it, more to the fact I admire t… Continue

I never was one to really shoot for sympathy when I was a kid but people always used to think I had it easy. I didn't and to this day I still don't. My dad has Diabetes, he was diagnosed with Diabetes before I was born, when he was just a young age of 21 years old. Life became hard for my dad at least thats what I think. The hospital constantly stipulating lifestyle changes. My mam once told me this story of what happened to my dad when he got diagnosed.

He was just lying in the hospital bed… Continue