YOU CAN DO THIS PROJECT

Contributor: Colleen; http://dmeanderings.wordpress.com

Connection: Person with type 1/LADA diabetes

Blog post: http://dmeanderings.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/you-can-do-this/

“Finding out you have Type 1 (LADA) Diabetes at the [...] age of 54 (one month before the 55th b’day) really, really stunk. Yes, I cried. Then I cried again at the grocery store trying to read those teeny, tiny nutrition labels. Then I cried again when I tried to eat some awful, cardboardy, “low carb” bread.

It’s been one hell of a struggle. It’s been a whole lot of learning.

But I am doing this because I can do this.

And yes, I still cry sometimes, just not as often…”