This Is It. You've Been Diagnosed - What Now?

The diagnosis.

Lying there in my hospital bed around 4 years ago with a very new piece of life changing information.

I was now a person with Type 1 diabetes and the emotions I was feeling ranged from numb, to being scared, to worrying about how it would effect the people in my own life.

It's a diagnosis that many of reading this would have had at some point in your life.

I remember that the first couple of hours and days were a complete blur. Plenty of information, lots of talking, a large amount of new fancy medical supplies and a simple how to guide of testing blood sugars, writing them down in a little book and being introduced to insulin. Being told that you'll have to do inject and prick yourself with various needles number of times a day. For every day. For the rest of your life. 

And I imagine if you're new to all this, you're feeling in a very lost place, very insecure and scared.

I certainly felt overwhelmed. 

But trust me on this. This will be the least you'll ever know about your diabetes, whether it be Type 1 or Type 2. 

Testing, testing. Always testing.