Diabetes.............

i like to refer to my diabetes as a "disorder"

that does seem like a happy medium.................well done toni.............welcome to the forum................

thank you novorapidboi!!

i dont know what id personally class it as, but if you break disease down its a 'dis-ease' ...and diabetes is certainly that to me!!

We will need to change that opinion claire.....

It can be managed with ease if you let it...

i have to agree with Novorapidboi life is what you make it, so dont let the diabetes rule you you have to rule it.
I have had diabetes for 30 years now and have two kids with it too, and at the moment im trying to teach my son ( who starts 4 injection regime thursday) that diabetes wont stop him from achieving what he wants to do only he will stop himself!

I think you've both missed the point of Claire's clever play on the word 'disease'. She's not saying that it's a disease but more of an inconvenience. That's my interpretation of her comment. anyway.

Alan

HAha exactly Alan! Thankyou... thats right, i wouldnt say it was a "disease" but more of a 'dis-ease', and i dont know anyone who would say it wasnt an inconvenience.

I understood the point, but I beleive that it is not an inconvenience, its been 11 years now and I dont think claire has been diagnosed that long, but it does become part of life, so much so it becomes normal....its all in the mind.....

I don't get to deep with it. I dont put it in a category. I dont see is as anything more than my life and thats it. I don't like to be labelled.

After 15 years I can honestly say when soemone asks me what it is like to be diabetic I can't really answer it. To me its like asking someone what its like to have size 8 feet or brown hair.