Anonymous
21.10.2008
Well it started when I was 17 years old in 2001 my HSC year, when I was diagnosed with type 1. I did not know i was sick so it got really bad and I ended up in the Intensive Care Unit for 1 week. It took 4 weeks for me to recover after I got out of the hospital my life turned into a nightmare.
I have to take 2 insulin injections before breakfast, 1 for lunch and 2 before dinner.The worst thing is i have a fear of needles. I was also preparing for my HSC exams and had to deal with Diabetes at the same time.
I was very upset and felt like giving up at times, i am guy and I will admit that I did cry once or twice. But due to the support of my diabetes educator, my doctors, dietitians and family I managed to get over it and pull myself together. I said to myself I'm way too young to give up and throw my life away.
From that day at 17 years old I decided not to smoke or drink alcohol, I walk instead of taking a bus, exercise daily and try not to stress too much. After about 3 years of hard work I lost weight, my insulin injections were slowly reduced and after a yearly blood test check up, I was told by my specialist that I do not need to take the insulin any more, he put me on diaformin twice daily.
From 2003 to present time I'm still on tablets and doing my daily exercise and eat healthy foods. Diabetes was a nightmare, but you know nightmares never last ,one day you wake up and its gone, after being diagnosed with diabetes my eyes were opened and I now look after my self more than I did before.
I have gotten stronger as well both the mind and body. I now work as a service technician for nearly 3 years,I sit down on a chair and PC for 8 hours a day, but when I get home I still have time to walk on my treadmill, use my skipping rope, put on boxing gloves and start sweating.
It gets hard when I have to do overtime but I try my best. I have learned that exercise is good but I also learnt that rest is equally as important. Well this is all I have to say and I'm still working hard to stay healthy and trying too relax more and have fun, my number one enemy is stress, fight stress be happy. My final word Happy=Good Health, it can have a healing affect, well thats what I think anyway.