Wow........how fast time flies. It has been almost a year since I last posted and so much stuff has changed. When I look back at how long it has been since Joshua has first been diagnosed it was such a painful period of adjustment. It isn't until hindsight is present that you realize where you have been and how far you have come.
As Thanksgiving rolls around here in two days I just want to spend it being Thankful. Not in your typical way that you are expected to do because the holiday tells us to do it........but really be thankful in ways you don't really know about until you experience loss of certain things in your life, loss of life as you knew it, a loss of innocence to certain things and life altering events that force you to adjust to life differently........ on the other side of your experience you either never adjust and struggle daily or you accept things and then just be thankful. I can say from experience getting there is the hard part but it does happen. So I want to be Thankful. Through all of this we could have been dealt something where there was no outcome for life. Cancer, blindness, deafness, things that one obviously adjusts too but much more loss than what we encountered. I always remember that it could have been worse. I don't want to think of US this holiday season..........I want to think of others because those that do have cancer.......those that have gone blind or deaf.........they need our prayers. They need us. We've come out of this experience with Type 1 Diabetes.........completely grateful and Thankful. We still have life and Joshua is actually very healthy.
When Christmas rolls around next month.......I want to spend that giving back. I look at my life and one thing we have been forced to do is simplify it. The tasks involved with diabetes management, with carb control and sugar balances and then you add Celiac Stuff on top of it.......I sometimes think that life cannot be anymore complicated or time consuming. It actually could but on my plate is enough. So as a family we did inventory. We took stock and we cleaned "house". From the inside out of ourselves. We decluttered ourselves and then followed with a complete decluttering of our home. Because so much goes into our small child, we had to make everything we did more simple and you know what.............it has paid off. With an awesome 7.4% on his A1C test this past month.......it tells us that we are getting good control of things. We started at an A1C test of 12%. IT tells us that simple is best. So when someone says keep it simple stupid..........I can absolutely say AMEN. Simple is so much easier. And when someone says Don't Sweat the Small Stuff............I can say AMEN to that too because the small stuff is so irrelevant to the really big stuff. When someone says let it go..........I absolutely can do that now. What mattered before doesn't matter now and what didn't matter before matters like it never did. And so I want to give back........I want to give to those that are really alone. Or really suffering because in spite of all that has been handed to us..........someone out there has it much worse. I have learned to count my blessings. I have learned that we can be examples of things more than we have to be victims of things. We are better people because of our son being diagnosed with diabetes. We are stronger and wiser. We are more vulnerable. We are more aware of others rather than ourselves. We are more willing to sacrifice for the sake of a family member more than we are for our own selves.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Merry Christmas To All. May God Bless you and May all you ever pray for be answered.
