Sweet Perfection Doesn’t Make It Go Away
Posted on June 19, 2009
Filed Under Juvenile Diabetes, Personal, dexcom continuous glucose monitor | Leave a Comment
I love perfection. Especially when it comes to my blood sugar readings. Yesterday, the Dexcom planets all aligned with the center of gravity for me and gave me perfection for a good 12 hours. Although this is not a completely rare sighting for some diabetics, it can be for me. But my sugar readings stayed between the lines and hovered between 100-150 mg/dl. All of the sudden, I had a fleeting thought that just maybe this disesase was going away! I should know better, but it feels good to daydream.
In the first few years after my diagnosis, I remember getting a few good sugar readings in a row and thinking that maybe this whole type 1 diabetes diagnosis was just a joke, I was outgrowing it and it was going away. Then, like a deflated balloon, I would come back to reality as some obnoxious reading of 250+ would come out of that wretched blood sugar meter. The number would kill my daydream.
So, here I am in my 30’s still daydreaming like a little girl that one day this disease will rid itself from my body. Although I have accepted the fact that it most likely will not, I do think that there are better ways of achieving perfection with advancements such as the continuous glucose monitor, smart insulin, the closed-loop project, to name just a few.
Although sweet perfection doesn’t make the disease go away, continued research for achieving perfection ultimately will make it go away.
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