World Diabetes Day 2018

2018-11-14

It's World Diabetes Day, a time to bring the disease diabetes mellitus to the foreground of that short term memory in accordance with the International Diabetes Federation.

My personal battle involves diabetes type 2 or adult onset diabetes ...

Also known as "Metabolic Syndrome X" to me as first introduced by my physician.

The day corresponds to the birthday of one Frederick Banting who was essential in the discovery of insulin along with two others in 1922.

As for me, I take the glucophage and other oral treatments and I'm afraid my control isn't "all that" but I'm squeaking by.

If I could simply stop eating my problems would go away.

I am also told that with successful completion of gastric bypass surgery a person is no longer diabetic either.

Be all of this as it may, I am what I am and it is what it is.