Memories and Sorrows
Starting with 6 years old, since you’re perfectly aware of what is around you, and start to realize if you’re hurt, if you’re bleeding, if you’re dizzy, drunk or tired, you should have someone near you (parents for example, or the family doctor) that should indicate you to pay attention to what always happens with your body and the signals that it often gives you.
A few days ago, I had some signs that are permanently linked with the feeling of hypoglycemia, and as never, just like in Proust’s novels, I remembered something that came from the mists of time, the time when I was 6-7 years old, I was healthy and went to school : the same sensation of internal tremor that I have now, I had then, but nobody knew to explain it to me, and decide for me. It was the sensation of hypoglycemia.
Of course, all of my tests were perfect and nothing can predict that 24 years later, I’ll be an insulin-dependent diabetes person. Yet, with little attention from my parents or my family doctor, couldn’t they somehow prevent this disease?
I think yes, they could. So mothers and fathers take care about everything you hear from your sons or daughters !! Sure, I have nothing to blame them ( they are both alive and I’m glad to say that ), they are still healthy at 83 (my father) and at 77 (my mother), thank God. It seems, however, they are more healthy than I am at 54 (though the word “however” should be removed because in reality, their health is better than mine ! ).
Nobody forget that although diabetes is a disease that does not kill instantly, in time, an accelerated degradation of the body is increasing geometrically after the age 50, with the well-known complications: retinopathy, pancreatitis, feet problems, erection problems and so on.
Around 50 is the point where you realize that life has taken a toll on your health and you can not turn back !.
If you had a messy life, if you smoked, if you if you took too many medication or drugs, then you should be sure that what follows, will not be an easy game, and you should prepare yourself for the dark side of your life (and this is not because you’re old and you can not do much, but because you are very sick and you don’t know it yet ! )
If instead you had a sober life, clean out from the sources of pollution, with daily therapy within the acceptable limits, then you can expect an old age but not necessarily more peaceful and carefree. Worries will surely come but they will come later, because any healthy body eventually dies, but it is very important and not the same way to die like a dog or die like an eagle !
Sincerely Yours,
Gabriel
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