Welcome to I Dance With Diabetes. This was created to build a community of individuals who are affected by a diagnosis of diabetes, whether you or someone you love.
Our goal is to provide practical, simple, and effective information and resources to help you flow through your days more easily and successfully while dancing with diabetes and being healthier every day.
Things always change. Things change in relationships, employment, business, and our health. Things change even when they are in our control and also when they are not in our control. You may think change can be avoided. Sometimes that works for a while, then there are other times when we are confronted with unwelcomed changes.
I hear about health issues all the time with people I know and people I don’t know. How often have you heard those stories but figured it wouldn’t ever be anything you would have to deal with? Then, life throws us a curve and we hear a diagnosis we may, or may not, be prepared for.
Diabetes is one of those health issues that is affecting more people every day. Statistics say 1.4 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year! That breaks down to over 2,700 people EVERY DAY!
As someone who has been in the health arena for over 25 years, I have seen and heard how diabetes, in particular, has affected individuals and their families and loved ones. Being a licensed massage therapist has exposed me to cascading issues such as neuropathy, loss of vision, heart disease, kidney disease, and more. None of these are pleasant, and none of these are welcome.
What brings me to this point? As people climb in age, diabetes is becoming a huge challenge in the medical community. As both my husband and I age, numbers keep climbing when physicals are done and the term pre-diabetes is creeping into the conversation more and more.
This becomes the point of choice. Do I take steps to avoid the official diagnosis of diabetes? Do I deal with all the life-changing implications to follow if I don’t make a wise choice?
Reading, investigating, understanding, inquiring, and changing are the steps to shortstop everything that remains in my power to exert all the control I can. This means everything in the food I consume as well as sleep and exercise. Basically, it’s called lifestyle. Everything that impacts us is a lifestyle and making changes to that can impact the biometrics that dictates a diagnosis of pre-diabetes, diabetes, etc.
