A life in the day

Okay, I’ve got an answer to my question.

Last Friday, I had asked

Dr. L told me that I was a diabetic for life. If the diagnosis has nothing to do with my insulin levels, nothing to do with any real symptoms except those that are direct results of high blood sugars, am I still considered diabetic if my blood sugars get to and remain in normal range?

The answer, which I had started to grasp, and which Dr. Lampugnale confirmed this morning is that I am not a diabetic because I have high blood sugar. I have high blood sugar because my body does not process its sugars properly. Many of the symptoms of diabetes will abate when I reduce the blood sugar to a proper level. But others are due strictly to the fact that I don’t and, barring some medical breakthrough, never will, properly process the sugars I eat, at least without the help of medication.

So the most I can ever do is manage the diabetes.

And hope for some gene therapy that might restore normal functioning.

Well, at least I know.