There Is No Right Answer

By Scott Coulter Diabetes is a game of numbers. Blood glucose running too high, too low, a little a high, a little low, just right. Too many carbs, too few carbs, too many units, too few units, an insulin ratio that's too high, an insulin ratio that's too low. Everywhere we turn, it seems, we have these cold, hard numbers staring us in the face, telling us in very exacting, precise ways whether we "got it right" or didn't. There are meal plans to follow, exercise regimens to follow, dietary guidelines, and much more that I'm not even remembering at the moment. The point of all this is that as people living with diabetes, we face the "right or wrong" test on a daily basis, and it's so easy to get a little lost in it. It's also easy to start thinking there is one right way to do things. But I think diabetes is actually a much more fluid thing than that. I don't think there is one right way to manage this disease any more than I think there is only ONE way to get from my house to the grocery store. I could take the main street, the back roads, the long way, the short way, and so on. You get the point. There is always more than one way to get somewhere, and there is always more than one "right way" to handle something like diabetes. What springs to mind first and foremost is the medical management side — the meal planning, the insulin levels, the blood glucose results, and so on. But I'm actually thinking more about emotional coping. After all, I'm a therapist. Is it worki...
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