I’m going to start dance again in the fall semester. Now I have to look for different studios in Gainesville.
diabetes “six until me” excerpt, by Kerri Sparling
People thought I would change her life, make her sad. Make her sick. Make her angry.
But instead, I’ve made her strong. I’ve made her fearless. And I’ve made her appreciate everything she has, everything she fights for. She hasn’t let me make her choices. She refuses to let me own her. She controls me. When she is in her last moments, whether sixty years from now or today, she will know, with certainty, that she has Lived.
Really lived.
She still smiles a lot. And laughs out loud.
Unconditional Love is one of those “catchable” ideas,
and may be best defined by what it’s not. It’s not images
of doves or rainbows. It’s not a sticker of a little round
smiling face. It isn’t flowery speeches. It’s more power-
ful than any of those symbols…a kind of beautiful
song that’s humming away inside of you all the time.
So, what prevents you from feeling it? Love is stopped
cold when you place conditions on it such as, “I’ll love
you if you behave.” “I’ll love you if you give me a
gift.” “I’ll feel love for you if you’re good to me.” It’s
loving unconditionally for what a person is, even if you
don’t like what that person does…keeping the two feel-
ings separate and correcting undesirable behavior while
still loving the person.
"Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers and dieticians all rolled into one. We need to be constantly factoring and adjusting, making frequent finger sticks to check blood sugars, and giving ourselves multiple daily insulin injections just to stay alive.
-Mary Tyler Moore"
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(Source: mypurplepancreas)
