Where was I?

How do I even begin again? I am sitting here eating dinner, trying to comprehend how I managed to be invited to another social media summit for diabetes bloggers. Due to a huge change in my personal life, I rarely blog about diabetes anymore, but more often participate on advisory teams for incredible projects that developed as the diabetes online community evolved.

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Ok, here’s a start. 5.6% – the result from a Bayer A1C Now home test taken yesterday.

Even though I am always forgetting to take metformin and forgetting to test as often I once did, somehow the attention I pay towards diet and towards exercise is enough. That makes this type 2 diabetes thing look effortless.

Let me assure you, it is far from effortless.

I count carbs. I track exercise. My pantry does not include pasta or rice or white sugar or flour of any kind. I weigh myself daily just to make sure I stick to the range that seems to keep that A1C reading under 6.0% in check year after year.

Guilt comes with dessert or with taking a day off from workouts.

Yet…

I still remember living with type 1 diabetes. It was a part of my daily life far longer than the type 2 diagnosis I was given. There was definitely nothing effortless about that. At all.

Life is so very different now with focus on me and me alone, but I never ever want anyone to think I forgot about the other side of the diabetes spectrum either.

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So yeah, I continue to be invited part of events like the one happening at the end of this month. I continue to want to be part of these events. Not just for me, but for all of the amazing people with whom I have developed friendships through the common experience of diabetes touching our lives in one way or another, through one type or another.