Recap: Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TYOCD) - Sacramento
Perspectives
March 21, 2016
Contributed by Diane Bajalia
Perspectives
Perspectives
Contributed by Diane Bajalia
My story about diabetes certainly isn't a love story suited for Valentines Day, especially after more than 25 years of being set in my ways with my spouse. This was what actually what made her diagnosis that much more difficult. We were used to a lifestyle and eating habits that had to change as a result of her diagnosis, neither of which I was very fond of. Sugar and sweets taste great until you're faced with diabetes and you realize it's a life or death choice. 
Sarah has lived with diabetes for 35 years, and we have been together for 20 of them. I didn't know very much about diabetes when we met in graduate school. Once in a while she would grab some apple juice and we'd wait a few minutes before taking a walk, or she'd refill her insulin pump while we were studying, but we didn't have long discussions about it.
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When asked what it's like being married to a woman with type 1 diabetes, Ginger's husband, Roger, says, "It's wonderful!" But his wife's diabetes weighs on his mind plenty -- especially now that Ginger is pregnant. 
This past April I joined my wif,e Shannon, during the DiabetesSisters Weekend for Women Conference in Washington D.C.
I’d never really given much thought to the notion of love at first sight until the moment that my precious daughter, Nicole, was first placed into my arms, and I was as they say, instantly and utterly ‘hooked’! I couldn’t stop looking at her, completing the requisite counting of fingers and toes, and marveling at this tiny perfect being my husband and I had created.