Today's Facebook status about living with diabetes

[neonvincent]

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." Nah, my blood sugar was good this morning.

Comments

[conuly]

Sweet!

I mean....

[neonvincent]

LOL. I've learned to love stevia.

[conuly]

Ah, but have you stopped worrying?

[neonvincent]

...and love The Bomb? Sorry, couldn't resist completing the "Dr. Strangelove" reference.

Seriously, in a weird way, yes. Being a diabetic has given me a structure and purpose to my life I didn't have before. It's also focused my anxiety on something real, immediate, and potentially deadly. The result is that I've grown up and calmed down. Why worry about an abstract existential threat when I can work on a concrete one and have small victories over it every day?

[conuly]

That's actually pretty amazing.