Do you have a DFF? Meredith Bay from Dreamfields Pasta wrote me about the contest they are running through April 30, 2010. They are looking for the best stories about your Diabetes Friend Forever. Is there someone who is by your side crying and laughing with you? Someone who listens when you are having a down day? Do you have someone who is there for you while you go through the day to day life of living with diabetes?
If so, Dreamfields Pasta would love to hear those stories. They are offering up some hefty cash prizes too. If you would like to submit a testimonial about your DFF you can go to the Diabetes Friend Forever site.
The Sad News? It’s for United States Residents only.
The Happy News? I want to run the same contest and open it up to anyone around the world. Now I can’t offer up big wads of cash, but what I can offer up is a nifty Personalized Medical ID Tag that can be hooked on to your purse, backpack, lunch box, winter coat, key chain….the possibilities are endless. I think it would be wonderful to share our stories about those who help and support us. Diabetes in general could use some positive uplifting stories.
The What, When and How
What: Write a story about your DFF, sharing with us the things they do to help make your life a positive one.
When: I will take stories starting today and the contest will end April 2nd. (I couldn’t do the 1st because that’s April Fools Day)
How: Submit you stories to renata@thediabeticduo.com. I will post a “Story” of the week every Tuesday.
I will announce the winner on April 6th along with the winning story.
Good Luck and I can’t wait to read your stories.
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Hi ! I’m an Australian who has lived with type 1 diabetes for more than 37 years since I was a young girl. I am amazed that you’ve not received any DFF stories from this world of people willing to write about anything and everything on the internet so I thought I’d start the ball rolling and let you know about my wonderful husband who has been there for me through thick and thin, highs and lows, hypos and hypers, needles and pumps for many years and is also there for our eldest son who also lives with the dreaded type 1.
John is a busy man as we have a couple of businesses which we now run from home. I have had LOTS of ups and downs with the diabetes over the years and he’s told me some of the dreadful things I’ve said to him when I’ve been in “one of those” hypos where I cannot control what I am saying or doing. I am amazed at times that he doesn’t just leave me in a heap on the floor but he never has and I don’t believe he ever would (well not for that reason anyway
. Our precious son who is now 11 years old was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 03/03/2003 when he was a cute (and healthy) 4 year old. It was a hideous day for us because John and I know what it is like and I know what his future holds if we don’t keep things constantly under control. Diabetes adds a whole new dimension to family life and I know lots of families that it tears apart so I have to be grateful for our John who encourages us to deal with what we have to deal with and get on with it and over it. That’s not always easy and sometimes everything crumbles around us but then we need a strong person to pull it all back together and that is usually John (although I guess I have something to do with that too).
Most of the most evil stuff happened before I got an insulin pump in 2004 but things are still not perfect even with a pump. I deal with hypo unawareness which is when the hypo sneaks up without warning and you’re yelling at your husband and kids like a maniac because they didn’t do some trivial thing and then you somehow through the fog figure something is wrong and hopefully you can manage to do a blood test and find it is really low. Sometimes I can’t even figure out at that stage where the jelly babies are, much less how to put them into my mouth. That’s when I really need a DFF and John is usually the one I depend on. Sometimes one of my sons has to help because John isn’t around so I am grateful to both of them too. I feel bad sometimes when I know I’m yelling at them because of something happening with my blood sugars. I can’t explain it sometimes and I know that I am not a nice person when my reading is around 14-15mmol. I’m just a yuk person sometimes so have to be grateful that there is some understanding in my family that I just can’t help it sometimes.
As a family, we put a lot of effort into raising funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) because, after 30 years of figuring I was never going to see anything done to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, I found a website telling me that JDRF was actually putting some effort into funding research that would eventually find a cure for us all. We have stuck closely to JDRF for many years and know they are working in areas that will eventually lead to a cure for us. I just want it to be yesterday so that the pressure of life with type 1 diabetes can be lifted from our family and families all around Australia, New Zealand and the world.
I’d like John to get a break from the extra stresses that it puts on and I’d like us not to need a DFF any longer. I stay ever-hopeful but ever-grateful to my special DFF who I was lucky enough to find and hang on to.
May all those of us with diabetes always have a DFF to take special care of us because sometimes we need special care
Chez
Absolute wonderful. And thank you for getting the ball rolling!
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