D-Blog Week: At Least It's Not ...

Today's D-Blog Week prompt is:  "If you could switch chronic diseases, which one would you choose to deal with instead of diabetes? And while we’re considering other chronic conditions, do you think your participation in the DOC has affected how you treat friends and acquaintances with other medical conditions?"This prompt makes me think of this:  "Type 1 diabetes?  At least it's not [insert other health condition here]."I am not comfortable with this prompt.  Mostly because it makes me feel lucky for how things are, and at the same time apprehensive about how they make shake out.  And I can't reconcile those feelings; I can't bake them together into something I can swallow.I feel lucky that, of all the chronic illnesses that I could be living with, I have type 1 diabetes.  "Lucky" actually feels like a dirty word, the wrong word, and I wish there was a word that would better exemplify that it's not "luck," but thankfulness for treatment options, coupled with thankfulness that I was born and raised in a country where my educated, employed parents had access to not only the drug I needed to stay alive, but also the means to provide education that would help me make choices and decisions that contributed to improved health outcomes.  This thankfulness comes part and parcel with an appreciation for how invisible type 1 diabetes can be, and how I don't look, or feel, very sick on a day-to-day basis.&...
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