Steel Magnolias
At some point when I was younger mom told me not to watch Steel Magnolias. When I asked why she said because it showed a bad experience with diabetes. For some reason, I honored what she said, I haven’t rebelled, and I’ve never watched Steel Magnolias.
That movie has been in our movie cabinet for a good, I dunno, 10 years. And when I go to get a DVD and I see it sitting there amongst the others, I don’t think twice about it, I just skim over it and see what else is in the stack.
Last night I was flipping through the channels where I’m staying because they have cable. Cable isn’t something we’ve ever had in our house so it’s a treat. Really, I don’t care much about watching TV. I mean, my idea of an antennae is a paper clip. If I can get ABC on Thursday nights so that I can watch Lost, I’m happy.
So, last night, I’m flipping channels, and looking at the guide and there’s Steel Magnolias. The idiot in me, flipped to that channel. I saw the part where her daddy is in the backyard firing his gun all the way through this clip:
That clip in and of itself traumatized me. Simply because I can remember things like wondering why there was crap all over my shirt after a low once and my mom saying “we were trying to get you to eat and you kept spitting it out”. Or the time I regained consciousness to paramedics and them saying “she’s ok, she’s talkin” (something about asking them if they were in the local half neekid good lookin firefighter calendar let them know I was ok.)
Mom said that movie had bad diabetic stuff in it, and I’m just going to trust her. One clip was all it took and I turned off the TV and went to check my email and read a book. I don’t need to watch anymore Steel Magnolias.
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Good decision! Your mom is a smart one - it does not get any better from there.
Unfortunately I was diagnosed later in life and had already seen (and owned) the movie.
It came out 3 years before I was diagnosed and since I was 11 when I was diagnosed I was probably too young at that point to watch the movie so when I was in my mid-teens mom spoke her wise words.
For all the things that I choose to rebel against when it comes to my mom, I’m glad that I listened her this time.
I watched this movie when I was 13, at the time I could have cared less about my diabetes control. Strangely enough I didn’t see the parallel to my life, it just kind of left me cold. Looking back I see the tragedy of it. Don’t watch it, it’s not even that good even if diabetes wasn’t involved.
That used to be one of my favorite movies long before I had a child with D. My husband bought it for me one year, but since Riley got D it has just sat in the closet.
About a year ago I was flipping through the TV channels and landed on that movie. I knew better than to watch it but I got sucked in anyway.
I have never watched that movie without bawling at the end. But, watching after Riley’s diagnosis I bawled all the way through the movie.
If you need a good cry, watch the movie. If not, steer clear.
Ahhh, Good old Steel Magnolias. I was forced to watch it once by someone who was ‘trying to help me out’ and gain better control. Boy did that fail miserably… Scaring me to death by basically showing me a movie where she had no hope for survival was probably not the best way to movitate me. Mom’s advice is always pretty good. I’d stick to it! =:~)
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