Balancing Diabetes

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Kerri Sparling. Balancing Diabetes

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for my littlest bird

Chapter 2 Before and After

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A diabetes diagnosis is only the first of so many “new normals.” As a kid, my parents and I both needed to learn how to pinch hit for my busted pancreas, making sense of the new tools and new medications introduced into my young life. The point of all that excellent care and attention was to help me grow up and become an adult with a life of my own. Which, eerily enough, actually happened.

Now that I am an adult, I find a new version of “normal” to adjust to every few years. At first, I went to college and needed to find balance in being almost solely responsible for my own care, making sure my medical needs were met without my parents looking over my shoulder. Then, it became the “new normal” of life in my own apartment, without roommates, balancing blood sugar checks against nights out with my friends and keeping up with the constantly shifting sands of medical insurance and a “real job.” Now, as an adult with a family, I’m trying to figure out how to keep my health afloat in the flow of life as a writer, a wife, and the mother of a little girl.

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