Yeah, I know things can always be worse, but I'm not really very good at thinking of my problems as being small in comparison to other people's. I have comparatively enlightened moments where I look at someone else's situation and realise it's a lot worse than mine and I shouldn't complain about my lot... and then the moment passes and I think to myself "fuck that, I've still got problems and they're still serious". So I see news stories like this one, or I do something like read up on the band Lycia (who I've kind of belatedly discovered recently) and discover their frontman is a diabetic and that the band nearly broke up cos he nearly died from it during the recording of one of their albums, or I go to Mu-Meson Archives (as I did tonight) and find one of their upcoming screenings is a doco about Lucio Fulci who actually did die of diabetes, and to have all this hit me in the space of about two days or so is kind of like the universe trying to send me a reminder or something: this could be you,
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Yeah, I can understand how down you'd feel with all of that hitting you at once. Don't worry, I complain about *everything* :) We all have our ailments but I guess, as long as they're controllable for the meantime, we should enjoy each day.
I have bad heart disease in my family and every aunt or uncle on my father's side either has had heart attacks in their 40s and 50s or they've had triple and quad bypasses.
Two. Type one is what they used to call juvenile diabetes, you're generally diagnosed with it in childhood. It accounts for something like 15% of diabetes diagnoses. The other 85% are type two cases, which is what I am. Tends to crop up later in life.
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As I always say, could be worse.. you could be in Burma or China.
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Yeah, I know things can always be worse, but I'm not really very good at thinking of my problems as being small in comparison to other people's. I have comparatively enlightened moments where I look at someone else's situation and realise it's a lot worse than mine and I shouldn't complain about my lot... and then the moment passes and I think to myself "fuck that, I've still got problems and they're still serious". So I see news stories like this one, or I do something like read up on the band Lycia (who I've kind of belatedly discovered recently) and discover their frontman is a diabetic and that the band nearly broke up cos he nearly died from it during the recording of one of their albums, or I go to Mu-Meson Archives (as I did tonight) and find one of their upcoming screenings is a doco about Lucio Fulci who actually did die of diabetes, and to have all this hit me in the space of about two days or so is kind of like the universe trying to send me a reminder or something: this could be you, ( ... )
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Yeah, I can understand how down you'd feel with all of that hitting you at once. Don't worry, I complain about *everything* :) We all have our ailments but I guess, as long as they're controllable for the meantime, we should enjoy each day.
I have bad heart disease in my family and every aunt or uncle on my father's side either has had heart attacks in their 40s and 50s or they've had triple and quad bypasses.
I'm looking forward to that :)
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You know, if you don't mind me asking.
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