Diabetes and I Part - 2

By Alevoor Rajagopal
How was that I diagnosed for diabetes? Was it by accident or was it because of an extraordinary intelligence of a doctor? Well. It was both plus my search thru' google that helped me discover I had diabetes.

The symptom was vissibly apparent. I developed a blister in my right arm pit. And it took ages to subside. Most of the MDs treated me with antibiotics and some injections. I ran around with diabetes (without knowing for sure it was that) from Mysore to Mangalore and to Mumbai. It was time about for me to leave for Tanzania on a business trip.

I had proposed for a life insurance with ICICI Purudential at that time. And ICICI Prudential required me to undergo a comprehensive medical in order to qualify. Ofcourse it was not aimed at finding out whether I had diabetes or not, but it sure did find out I had it. Oh God! You just proved it once again. What I wished would never touch me was all over me, the sweetest killer. I had known the symptoms from my google searches and my sister, a doc .

Till then I thought it was enough for a diabetic to stop consuming sugar (this I later discovered was not easy). Diabetes was not just about that and required a lot of controls on my life styles too. I was keeping long hours in the night, smoking a bit. But more than all, what diabetes took away from me was my freedom to eat what I and when I wanted. I was slowly getting ready to welcome the sugary killer that diabetes was in to my system.

Alcohol and smoking were the worst enemies that were to be kept at bay as long as I wished to live. Work outs and walkings were in things with me. A little bit of yoga and meditation of a few minutes a day and all these I had to squeeze in between my daily routine as asking an extra hour every day was foolish.

In my view Diabetes makes a man/woman a desciplined and busy person. It makes most of your schedules and tells when you should do what and why.

Diabetes is not a disease on its own. It is a gate way to many of the dreaded ones. You can explode your eyes with glaucoma, you can collapse your heart with collesterol, you invite kidney failures and strokes if you play with diabetes. Mind you diabetes is the single most biggest killer in the world if you took all the failures attributable to diabetes.

I will deal with all of them in my tryst with it in the coming posts in these pages. Thanks till then.