It’s the way you look at it
I have just finished listening to an interview of Tanni Grey-Thompson by Aled Jones: what a terrific person. Someone I would definitely want to talk to if I ever met in a pub or on a train.
One of the most interesting things Tanni talked about was when she got her first wheel-chair. This isn’t a direct quote, I didn’t write it down, but the gist was “I didn’t see this as giving up, I didn’t see it as accepting defeat. Many friends saw it as a huge transition but I saw the wheel chair as an enabler, something that helped me to live”.
Many see insulin the same way: there is almost a reluctance to provide insulin via injection until there is no other choice.
I find this strange: I don’t like injections, sometimes they really hurt, but my insulin is my enabler, it makes life possible. I very physically hurt if I don’t have it.
It’s not easy replacing what my body is failing to do naturally but that is the choice. Give up or get on with it.
Some on the planet see requiring the injections as being repulsive, the fact that it’s extremely difficult sometimes to get it right every minute of everyday, abhorrent. There are definitely days when it seems like way too much bother, but unlike the friendship I wouldn’t want from these people, I am in this for the long game 🙂
Posted: September 2nd, 2012 under Diabetes.