Diabetes

It isn’t by too much sugar

It isn’t caused by obesity

It isn’t caused by catching it from someone, it's not a choice

It isn’t just taking pills or insulin and magically feeling better

Diabetes is the 3 am blood sugar tests

Diabetes is the highs and lows of every single day

Diabetes is the moodiness, loneliness, tiredness

Diabetes is not having others understand you disease

It’s the countless bills, late nights, energy, the fight against your body

It’s contemplating what to eat every meal to hopefully take the perfect amount of insulin

It’s the shots, sensors, finger pokes that hurt

It’s worrying about not being able to wake up the next day

It’s a disease no one can see on the outside but love to judge

Diabetics take more than what most people could ever imagine

It brings strength

It brings knowledge

It brings maturity

It brings me a new insight to live every single day like it’s my last

So Diabetes, I don’t hate you or love you either

I wouldn’t trade you though

I have become who I am supposed to be

I have become a fighter, and I am going to fight until I win