My name is Jamie. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just before my 7th birthday. This year will be the 29th anniversary of when I was diagnosed. If you want to hear my story of how I discovered I had diabetes go to this link.
I am a wife and a mother of 4 beautiful children. Life has been full of adventure and excitment and has been difficult at times. Living with diabetes is difficult, time consuming, frustrating, and so many more things...
My purpose in starting this blog is to have a daily log of life with diabetes. While my life is more than diabetes, I simply wish to show how having diabetes affects life on a daily basis--while just sleeping at night is different than someone without diabetes.
I beleive that anyone can accomplish and attain anything they want. For some, this might take a little more work or a different way of looking at it. I hope to point myself and others in that direction. While I don't think that having diabetes should be the focal point of our lives ( we should just live our lives), we cannot ignore it. Even if we didn't care about taking care of ourselves, those with diabetes know you cannot ignore it. It can and does affect those with it daily, changing how to work their days! I want to be realistic yet positive in writing about life with diabetes. Yes, there are complications--we all know this, but things are also possible ( I was told I would never have children, and I have 2 wonderful children--yes it was difficult to bring them here but it happened).
I am hoping to make friends and raise awareness, educate myself and others in the process. I have been blown away by ignorance on people with and without diabetes who really don't understand it, including those close to me. I intend to provide links throughout my daily posts so people can read for themselves what I have discovered and researched, and then maybe someone might guide me into dicovering more along the way.
I invite all comments, both from people with diabetes and those without. Feel free to give me your two cents on what you think, and we can all learn together!
