Day 8: post diagnosis
I won't lie, Coming out of hospital was scary, yes it was nice to be home but not so great knowing that I had to deal with this condition on my own now, but I actually surprisingly took to it rather well! I wanted to learn about it and I wanted to be able to understand it and how to manage it! I read countless books and publishings, found online forums and support networks, the diabetic nurses were impressed and said I was very pro active!
That lasted a few months and then I went downhill... I guess you could call it the stages of grievance, I was grieving my old life, the one the died when I was diagnosed, the one where I was free to do what I liked, eat what I wanted, thought about positive things! It was hard and I changed as a person immensely, I shut myself away, not wanting to see anyone and those people close to me just didn't understand what I was essentially going through! They say in situations like that you truly find out who your real friends are, well let's just say that I did...
So yes it was difficult adjusting but I did snap out of the state I was in and just learned to deal with it all, the online forums helped me so much, meeting and talking to people sharing the same condition made me realise that actually I wasn't the only one and wasn't alone in the things I was going through.. I really think I wouldn't have coped as well as I did back then without the online support community and I am so thankful for that :)
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