I originally wrote this as a big long huge paragraph about a few things i have learned, but it all boils down to this:
I am a type I diabetic, first diagnosed over 30 years ago (diagnosed with "juvenile diabetes" as a juvenile - imagine that).
I refuse to let diabetes become a crutch, an excuse for why i "can't" do something.
remember the cliche... either you control the diabetes, or it controls you.
that is how i have lived my life, and I have all my appendages, and my eyesight, and a doctor's visit every 6 months, when he gets to draw blood and tell me I have no retinal neuropathy, and the feet of a healthy forty year old.
and when you control it, life isn't any different than it is for someone who isn't diabetic. so stay on top of it please. for your own good.