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The scariest part of it all is the unknown. Not knowing if you’ll ever get better. Constantly fearful that you will spend the rest of your days in pain. That your dreams are no longer realistic or attainable.

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Those who have suffered from this type of hurt are capable of a deeper understanding and threshold. Those who have suffered tragedy know pain and suffering. Those who have experienced these times are less quick to judge, have kinder tongues, have open arms. They are trying so hard to keep everything together.

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Diabetes is not what the media portrays it as – a fat person’s disease. Diabetes is thousands of people fighting against their own bodies everyday to stay alive.

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I didn’t want to tell anyone that I was sick because I didn’t want to be treated differently than anyone else. I didn’t want people to avoid talking about cancer because “the cancer girl” was around.

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When you are dating somebody with chronic health problems, things tend to be a little bit more complicated. This does not mean that we deserve love less than anyone else.

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You never know what someone is going through just by looking at them.

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We can read about this stuff all day long, but it’s not until one has a personal experience with a disease or disorder, or associates closely with someone who has said disease or disorder, that one truly understands what it is like.

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I hope you get well soon because the world needs you – because I need you. The world needs people with your kindness and compassion and the world needs people who still know how to love unconditionally without asking for anything in return.

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What I have been through because of my disease has changed my personality and outlook on life entirely. I no longer worry about the little things in life, I don’t deal with drama, I don’t focus on things I cannot change because I realize there are way more important things I need to devote my limited energy to.

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I’m not the sick girl. I never was. I live with an illness. I was very sick at one point, but it was never who I was.