Dear Diary, The past week has been difficult. During my normal weekend routine out in the yard, I cut my hand, ended up in the emergency room resulting in 10 stitches on my thumb. Took a lot of grief from my family telling me I have to slow down that I’m too old to be mowing the lawn. When did 70 become too old? I know my vision isn’t the best and I’m tired all the time, but heck I’m not old. It’s been five days since I cut my hand in the yard and the darn thing is just not healing. At my family’s insistence, I am unwilling off to the doctors. These people I tell you worry way too much. Well that’s just nonsense the doctor thinks I have diabetes. Diabetes? Me? No way I’m healthy, he’s a quack! Now I have to starve myself for 12 hours for these vampires to stick me with …show more content…
Very nice woman Dr. Smith. I tell her hey “doc, I’ve got a lot of questions”. She smiles and say’s reassuring me I will be fine. Dr. Smith starts off asking if anyone in my family had diabetes I couldn’t recall. She said that anyone can get Type 2 Diabetes, however people that are at most risk tend to be over 40 years old, who are overweight, have high cholesterol, high blood pressure and are physically inactive, those with family history and that this is now increasingly occurring in adolescents. She even shared that a person’s race can be a factor in being susceptible to having Type 2 diabetes and is generally more common among Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans / Pacific Islanders. Well I am 70 years old, have high blood pressure and not very active. She asked if I’ve had any of these symptoms been very thirsty, frequent urination, weight loss, increased hunger, blurry vision, irritability, tingling or numbness in hands or feet, frequent skin, bladder or gum infections, cuts that don’t heal and extreme unexplained fatigue. “Doctor”, I say “yes, I’ve been so tired and my vision is blurry lately but thought it was