What doesn't kill you...

...will hang around until it eats you up bit by bit.

Diabetes sucks.

My diabetes has made it next to impossible for me to do "real" work since I'm having trouble controlling it.  Actually, right now, diabetes is controlling me.  And I HATE it. 

So, I'm going to a class today, a 2 hr class, that will give me ideas and helpful hints how to regain control over this diabolical disease.  I am hopeful that the class will help me, but only slightly so.

My brother has diabetes as well, and is fighting it with all his might, and yet this killer disease is eating him alive, bit by bit, even as hard as he is fighting it.  His kidneys are nearly useless, he has neuropathy, yet he works out 5 days a week, 2 hours a day in a gym with both aerobic and weights, eats a mostly vegetarian diet, has lost weight, and still diabetes is eating him up.

Diabetes ate up my Mother and Father, most of my mother's sisters and brothers.  Some lost limbs before they passed, but most lost their kidneys.  NONE lost their will to fight this disease.  And yet it continues to chew us up, like a caterpillar on a lief, one bite at a time, only the diabetes caterpillar likes to chew on nerve fibers, capillaries, then moves to larger veins and arteries, with an insatiable hunger, chewing, chewing, chewing...

The Universe is kind...