Occasionally, Animas Corporation puts on free seminars about the insulin pump or about diabetes in general. Today I attended one of those seminars. In attendance was an older man who liked to talk about his experiences, One lady who has had diabetes for about 12 years, two moms and an eight year old boy newly diagnosed (last 6 months). The seminar was to be on advanced pump training. We covered a little bit on that but, as usual, my attention was directed to the person who needed the most acute assistance. And that was the boy. I felt so much empathy for his mother and the other mom who was there to get as much information as they could. There is so much to know. The context that is given people is more useful to the medical profession than it is to the people who need to deal with diabetes every day. I have been searching for a way to develop this context. I got a flash of insight as I was driving home from the class. All of my yoga, meditation and “spiritual” study and work have revealed to me that diabetes is a disease that mirrors disharmony. The disharmony in ourselves, our family and our society. The whole object of the game we must play as diabetics is to manually create harmony. Yoga, meditation and spiritual endeavor lights the path for this game and may be the ingredients needed to create a more useful context for all the knowledge and skill that must be acquired to become a master of the game. As with life so with diabetes. I gave the two moms my blog site and hope they get to read some of the posts on diabetes.
HI–Im not much of a computer person but–I was so positively impacted by today’s seminar–I had to let you know–and to thank you–so thanks for your help–I was so overwhelmed and desperate when I got to that meeting–the transition for my son going on the pump has been a total roller-coaster ride and we are both frustrated and Im exhausted by this–it seems to be taking over our lives a little–despite my intentions not to let that happen. I know that this is a marathon-not a race and in light of all that is going on around the world-not that big a deal–not too terrible–still that doesnt change the need for me to be taking the best care possible of my child and teaching him to take care of himself–and I feel so out of control–everyone there was so incredible helpful and just plain understanding–I didnt want to hijack the meeting–and am uncomfortable as the focus of attention–but was worried about my son and was so grateful when you said–lets get this kid back on his pump–thank you so much–I was screaming that in my head but couldn’t verbalize it–very shy–Im again hopeful of getting some kind of handle on this–cant even really express what a great experience that was –also for my son–he usually will freak if I speak about his diabetes in front of others but I think felt relieved and positive seeing all these grown-ups talking about their experiences, pumps, sites etc–soo thanks so much from the bottom of my heart–cheesy but true–hope to see you at the enxt session–susan
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