Anyone can have failing kidneys, anyone can get a gash on their foot that leads to an amputation, anyone can go blind.
But with diabetes, these among many other bad things are magnified. They become points of reference for what will happen if I don’t take care of myself. As though they couldn’t happen if I didn’t have diabetes. How often told was I "Courtney, we’re going to take you to the hospital so you can see what will happen if you don’t take care of yourself; people lose their limbs, their sight, their lives."
If I had been a slight bit brighter as a child I would’ve looked at the sayers of these statements and said "So can you. You, one without diabetes, can experience kidney failure, have your leg amputated, go blind".
It’s funny, doctors, parents, friends. They think they can magnify the bad in hopes that that will force my hand and make me want to have nothing but a near immaculate case of diabetes. In fact, they don’t think they can magnify the bad, they do magnify the bad. And in several cases, I can remember looking at the people telling me the bad things in the eyes and saying "Whatever, take me to the hospital, those people made their choices, and I’m making mine. " and shrugging.
I fight between the lack of care, the pretend to care, and the have some care of diabetes in my life. But immaculate care, that’s not what I’m about, anything can happen to me with or without diabetes, and it’s hard enough to have decent care of my diabetes, I’m not going to bend over backwards in an attempt to have immaculate care. The bad will come naturally with or without my help, it doesn’t need to be magnified to make me aware of it.
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I hate to say it, but those scare tactics never worked well for me either. Positive encouragement and criticism works so much better most of the time!
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I guess I’m a little numb to it all still,scare tactics have no affect on me either. I’m not sure what will work for me just yet but I do know that scare tactics isn’t it.
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Hi Kimberlee, the scare tactics are the biggest waste of time for any doctor or person to pull on us, personally that’s what I think of course. They need to give us a better reason to live other than “you’ll go blind, lose a leg, or destroy your kidneys”.
I had a hard time finding something worth taking care of my diabetes for, cycling is what saved my life to be completely honest…being able to do something that I was told I couldn’t do when I was a child, be an athlete, it was has turned me around and made me want to take care of my diabetes (most of the
time, I still have my days, weeks, and months where I neglect it).
Courtney
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