Sharif Marhoumy

I come to share a (for some reason) unique perspective.

I am eternally grateful for this illness.

Been diabetic since 1999.

Undoubtedly would have been less healthy without it.

Diabetes made me grow up fast, and care about myself more than the average person does in their early years on this earth.

We are a rare community filled with fully functioning cyborgs with sensors in our arms and shit. That is cool af.

Most of us live and die with all our limbs and vision, and it has never been more likely that we will live a long and full life, considering the tech that has broken through with cgms and pumps over the past several years.

Treat this illness like a blessing, and it will be one.

Treat it as a curse, and it will be one.

Life is simple, fear of dying is common, fear of losing a leg or vision should be a thing of the past.

Trust your instincts, trust your insulin pump.

Escape from the “my life sucks” mentality that comes with diabetes, and embrace the peculiar life you live.

On the long list of why this disease is a nuisance, (1. Exhausting, 2. overwhelming, 3. expensive, 4. debilitating) try to remember the benefits.

1. Skip lines at amusements parks sometimes.
2. Other things

I’m kind of losing focus on why started I writing this.

This shit is exhausting tbh.

Fuck diabetes actually.

But whatever tho.

Embrace it, because otherwise you’re just a self pitying, “woe is me, life isn’t fair,” head ass individual.

If you have 10 fingers and 10 toes, you’re blessed.