Diabeetus
For those of you who have read my prior posts, I indicated that I was diagnosed with diabetes several years ago. Full disclosure: I was 'pre-diabetic'. My glucose was above normal, but not high enough to be full blown diabetic. Fast forward to age 40 - my glucose A1C is more than double the threshold for a diabetes diagnosis: FYI: below 5.1 is normal, 5.1-6.9 is pre-diabetic, and 7 and above is diabetic. So my A1C of 13.7 is "wildly out of control diabetic". I was pre-diabetic for years, bouncing between 5.5 and 6.5. My last A1C was taken in May of 2023, less than a year ago, and it was 5.4 (I was so excited at how low it was!).......spiking up to 13.7 in less than a year was totally unexpected. I was living in a mind space where I would always be pre-diabetic. Becoming a diabetic was not something I had even considered, let alone prepared myself for. My immediate reaction was anger. At myself. At my doctor. At sugar. Then came grief. I ate a lot of choco