The Seventh Year Itch

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Time passes so fast. Today marks the beginning of the Seventh year living and striving with T1D.

I remember how I would follow what my mom told me to eat and drink during the first year of diagnosis. A lots of misleading education from the public to my mom, and hence the effects were on me. 

I drank before Misai Kucing (Cat Whiskers) for the whole day, for which they believed that it helps in reducing blood sugar level. Also, fruit juice with bitter gourd as the main ingredient, they said bitter gourd can help in lowering sugar level. And the most ridiculous one was 符水, in which the Daoist burned the "mysterious" writing on a thin sheet of yellow paper in a bowl, added water to the ashes, then asked the innocent girl who was staring at her mom to drink it finish! (my mom desperately wanted me to get cured without logical thinking already). Oh ya! There was another one, a so-called God-sent prophet was telling my mom to give the poor daughter to eat as much watermelon as she can. Watermelon can cure her, because the Kuan Yin said so to the prophet. Excuse me, I am a Buddhist, not a Daoist. And eating too much WATERMELON is very refreshing I know, also very HYPERGLYCEMIC!

Okay, I understand that when a person/family came to the end of the road, when they lost their rationality, they would try out all sorts of method from the ground to the sky (from Herbs to the Heaven). Accepting a serious medical diagnosis includes a few phrases. That time, it was a total Denial Phrase for my family and I. Thank god, it didn't last very long, if not I would be admitted to hospital again, this time for food poisoning. 

Definition from internet

The Seventh Year Itch = A supposed tendency to infidelity after seven years of marriage

For me is this

The Seventh Year Itch = A supposed tendency to lose control after seven years of dealing with diabetes

I was checking my sugar level yesterday, I am checking my sugar level today and I will be checking my sugar level tomorrow! Thinking to myself: Good! Checking blood sugar every day, so perfectly in control! No itch! 

But, wait a minute. Who says you only need to check your sugar level, CBS? When was the last time I looked precisely onto my feet, onto the skin between those toes? When was the last time I carefully examined my abdomen and thigh's injection sites? 

Not only sugar level, too many things will "itch" for T1D!

Wish me luck!