Super (hero) Laura

I’ve said it often, I have a bad attitude about my diabetes. If you didn’t know that, now you do I’d say that I’m working on it, but realistically, I’m not really, well, maybe just a little bit (it’s hard to work on adjusting my vehement hatred towards something, I mean, I hate it vehemently, what’d you expect?). Except for there’s something that is rubbing off on me with practically every conversation I have with a fellow DiabetesSisters Triathlon Team teammate.

Laura has got this weapon that she doesn’t keep hidden. She shoots first and then doesn’t proceed to ask questions. There’s no ifs ands or buts about it. The thing about it is, her weapon isn’t a bad weapon, I probably shouldn’t be calling it a weapon, because it’s good, weapon sort of has bad connotations. Laura has got PMA. Positive. Mental. Attitude.

Laura’s PMA is a drastic change from my generally not pleasurable attitude surrounding diabetes in my life. We’ve got some cross attitude annoyance issues from time to time but she always wins in the end. It’s hard for my bad attitude to beat out her good attitude. Not that that’s a bad thing in any way.

That PMA has been rubbing off on me and she’s taken “can’t” out of my vocabulary (I get beeeeeeeped if I say the word “can’t”, it drives me nuts, but I’ve stopped fighting it, my brain keeps trying to find ways around the word “can’t”. It hasn’t found many). But, I can’t complain, taking the negative attitude and replacing it with a positive attitude in my mental diet made a massive difference this past weekend in my triathlon and I just have to hang on to that.

Laura’s PMA and the way it radiates from her (like it’s a super power) makes her the latest hero in my books