Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
India is the diabetes capital of the world yet most Indians don't seem to know much about it. I've lived 20 years as a diabetic so it gets a bit irritating when I'm asked, "Is it contagious?" Yes, it is frustrating when there are questions like, "You must have eaten a lot of sweets while you were young, right?" There are ominous-sounding ones that make being diabetic sound like "certain death". Once in a while, there have been compliments like, "Oh! that's why you're so sweet, sugar."
I am not an expert on any other disease but can empathise how a diabetic feels. You live life full of struggle, do so much and yet its one of those moments which you have to relive everyday where you bake a cake and can't eat it (pun intended).
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Double-decade-of-diabetes/SP-Article1-1111211.aspx
I am not an expert on any other disease but can empathise how a diabetic feels. You live life full of struggle, do so much and yet its one of those moments which you have to relive everyday where you bake a cake and can't eat it (pun intended).
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Double-decade-of-diabetes/SP-Article1-1111211.aspx