Reflecting on Life: A Visual Journey with Diabetes project

Type 2 diabetes skips generations.

Tell my deceased grandmother, my mother, myself and my son that lie! Smh all of us have it! In my case my current numbers say I'm no longer diabetic, I control it through diet and exercise! I do not eat excessive carbs or refined sugar anymore and never will again. I take no medicine and my numbers stay in normal range.

There are no carbs or sugar in meat and vegetables.  Tell that to my cgm as I watch meat and vegetables raise my blood sugar slightly.  Yes, meat and vegetables have carbs just not a lot. Almost everything we eat in the USA either has sugar or carbs. The key is to learn what to eat, when to eat it and what really was the lockness monster?

You done ate all that sugar and done got the diabetes! (Read this with your elderly black woman voice) read it again... ok you got the joke? I believe  this is not true, diabetes is genetically passed down. There is nothing you can do to get diabetes, you are born with it. You can trigger it mostly through poor diet choices and a sedentary lifestyle but you can't go and get it if you don't already have it. Sorry mom dukes.

All fat people have diabetes. (It is 2023 can I use the word fat? Well I did! Jump in the picket line) This myth simply is ignorant and untrue. If you viewed the TV show my 600 lb life you would see that all of the large and in charge persons were not diabetic, neither is every sumo wrestler diabetic. There are plenty of skinny diabetic people.  What I want to know is how those 600 lb people washed their private parts, if you know what I'm saying. Just a thought. 

"I don't have insurance, so I can not get diabetic medicine and glucose machines". There is this thing called the internet, I believe it was created by Al Gore, maybe not. There are plenty of sites that will hook you up. They have medical staff that will set you up for an  evaluation from a licensed physician. The physician can write you a script and fill it for what you need. I did it!

It is better to hide the fact that you are diabetic from friends and family. Not true! I get it, I did it, the reality is you have done nothing wrong to get diabetes, remember it's genetic. There is nothing to be ashamed of, it's time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. We all need to work together to knock out diabetes. The knock out begins with the sharing of information. Hold your head high, say I have diabetes out loud! You didn't do anything wrong! Say it loud I HAVE DIABETES!  SAY IT!!  There you go, I'm proud of you. Now let's get to work! (Yes, I really did hear you).