What Does Your Normal Look Like?

Normal? Routine? Easy?  Those are words that don't usually go in the same sentence with diabetes.  After the initial shock of a diagnosis wears off, you begin to establish a new way of doing things.  A new normal.  The sooner one is able to embrace a new normal, the sooner the ability to LIVE with diabetes rises higher than the fear, guilt, worry and sadness that are also present.

Normal for us in year one post diagnosis was survival.  Good days and bad ones.  Lots of confusion, and more learning. At some point, the fog began to thin out.  Things became a little clearer.  Dare I say, a confidence was growing that I  wanted to lie claim to -- I wanted to be in charge of diabetes and teach J diabetes was an inconvenience -- not to give it any more credit than that.

Today is another day of carving out the moments of our new normal - even three years down the road.

Today, J left on a weekend adventure of a lifetime to a city he dreams of calling home someday  -- NEW YORK CITY

My "family, friends, and parents" in the #Nightscout  world also help keep my sanity on a weekend like this.  Because of the tireless efforts of the developers of #wearenotwaiting I awoke to the ability to have all of this information -- in front of me -- all the time.  Information overload for some, our normal place.

The newest Pebble watch face for the Nightscout program







Embracing our new normal -- realizing until there is a cure -- diabetes will always be an inconvenience, but not a deal breaker -- has allowed moments like this to happen for my kid.

Easy?  No, that's not going to be a word I use often in the same sentence as diabetes, but necessary is.  Is your normal a good place to be?  If it's not, that's okay..embrace that too.  Take the baby steps to shape life to what you want it to look like... LIVE with diabetes...don't endure it.