What We've Learned: D-Blog Week (Day 7)

Day 6 will come tomorrow (as it is a photo project) so for now I cheated and skipped over to Day 7. 


"Click for the What we’ve learned-Sunday 5/15 Link List.
Last year, Wendy of Candy Hearts made a suggestion for this year.  She commented “I think Day 7 should be a post about stuff we've learned from other blogs or the experience of coming together online...”  Today, let’s do just that!!  What have you learned from other blogs - either this week or since finding the D-OC?  What has your experience of blogging the DBlog Week topics with other participants been like?  What has finding the D-OC done for you?  If you'd like, you can even look ahead and tell us what you think the future holds!"


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Alone.


That's how it feels so much of the time.
But in spite of my trepidations, my exhaustion, my loneliness, I did emerge to find light at the end of the tunnel.
Every day is a constant struggle to stay in view of that light.
Strings of emotion, grief, wacked-out blood sugars, and shock threaten to overtake and overwhelm me.
But I have been helped along the way by a group of very amazing people - the Online Diabetic Community.
A silent bystander I might be, but somehow just reading the blogs, the experiences of other Type 1's just like me helps in an enormous way.
Just to know that I am not alone, that I am among millions who hope for a cure, that many others just like me face the same struggles and same frustrations on a day-to-day basis gives me strength to carry on.
These people provide some of the best sources for research for me because, unlike a textbook or a Doctor's orders, these people are real, living, breathing testaments to what living with Diabetes is like and what they do to cope with it. I've read about what it's like for people using insulin pumps, felt better about the fact that I'm not the only one who experiences the low-to-high-late-night-hypo-carb-fests, been encouraged to know that I'm not the only Diabetic who would like to have kids and that it is indeed possible. I've been inspired to continue writing my own blog after reading the blog's of other Diabetics. I've laughed at the funny experiences that I can relate to, heard different opinions on what's the most favored Glucometer Brand or Glucose Tabs, and sympathized with the struggles of living with a disease that will never go away. 
And you know what? These people are incredible. Despite everything, they all keep living, and each and every one of them is amazing and unique and has a special reason for being here on Earth.


SO thankful to have found an invaluable source of help and inspiration from the Diabetic Community!