I know I have not been blogging lately. I’m deeply sorry. I have been very busy with real life. I went to visit a friend in PA and caught the
puke/poop bug, and was sick for a few days.
I am also moving down to PA so been busy packing on top of the normal daily
activities.
I wanted to share with you all something that actually
makes me thankful for diabetes. It is my
BFF Jody. I met her in 2004ish on a diabetes forum Diabetes Daily. We chatted on their message boards and chat
room for a few years. We became very
close good friends. In fact so close we
consider ourselves twins. We have a lot
of similarities. She is a few days shy
of 6 months older than me, we were diagnosed around the same time, have similar
interests. It is quite funny. The saddest thing is we live an ocean apart,
me on the east coast of the US she in England.
So it’s very hard to keep in touch as there is a 5-6 hour time
difference depending on the time of year.
And mailing letters and packages and phone calls are expensive.
In 2009 she got the opportunity to come over to the US
and visit me here in Boston. She came
over with her cousin and her cousins 2 kids who were 3 months and 2.5 at the
time. We had a ball. We went to Vermont Teddy Bear Factory, Ben
& Jerry’s, NYC, all sorts of places in Boston. She even experienced Chuck-E-Cheese one rainy
day.
June 2011 I had the chance of a life time and got to go
to Scarborough England to visit her. I
had the time of my life. I stayed there
for 3 weeks. We saw everything in Scarborough…I
even got to go to her Endo appointment.
We took train rides to York for the day and met up with another D girl,
and we took the train to London for 5 days.
I love London I cannot wait to go back and visit there. In addition to the train we took the bus to
some Sea side towns, and her dad drove us to some cool places like the Moors
National Park and a Tea House. It is so
beautiful over there. And I just have to
say living over there is so different than here in the US. They use a ton of public transportation, and
it gave me a whole new approach to public transit. I now love using buses and trains here in the
states to get around. We also walked
almost everywhere. Something we here in
the states hardly do. We don’t think
twice about jumping in the car to go to the corner store. There if we couldn’t use the town busses we
walked. We walked everywhere, to the
grocery store, her hospital appts, her cousin’s house, the grocery store. If we wanted to go somewhere we had to walk.
I know diabetes can be very frustrating at times. But because of diabetes I have made several
great friends worldwide--from the Philippines, to Malaysia, TO Australia, to all
parts of Europe, to Canada, to all over the US.
When I get down about diabetes I like to think of all these friends I have
gained and the opportunities I had because I have diabetes.
I have to give a quick shout out to some of the great
ladies I have met. Jody, Lucy, and
Carrie in England, Joni in MN, Hannah in Malaysia, Lloyd in SD, Jess in Nova
Scotia, Alexis and Megan in Las Vegas, and there are many many more.
