This is the one that may be cause for celebration.
Posted August 12th, 2010 by Mike Lawson
When I was diagnosed with diabetes I knew almost nothing about it. In fact when I was diagnosed I kind of thought that maybe the doctor would tell me that I had some form of diabetes that a few pills and a little attention to my diet could cure.
Five years later, that’s not exactly the case.
I never thought that maybe I should write down the date of my diagnosis. Some of my online friends celebrate their diagnosis day (D-Day)…another year under the belt where diabetes didn’t get the best of them.
George celebrates his on October 2nd.
Lee Ann’s is in October too.
Kerri was diagnosed September 11th.
Ashley celebrates on August 4th (and has quite a diagnosis story).
And I have no date to celebrate. I just don’t remember when I was diagnosed. I think that I was diagnosed around mid-August or early September. But I don’t know the exact date.
Should I care? Should I just make up a date and go with it? Or should I just live like I have for the past five years…just celebrating each day as an accomplishment?
I kind of think that there should be an e-card for this occasion. Something like this:
7 Responses to “This is the one that may be cause for celebration.”
August 12th, 2010 at 10:18 am
I didn’t know my date until just a few months ago. I just knew it was the beginning of August. When you don’t know the date it just means you get to celebrate longer! This year was the first time I was going to actually do any “celebrating”…but then I worked too long and missed the dinner I planned haha. So, I’m baking a d-day/goodbye/happy b-day to my boss cake today.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:06 am
You could try tracking down the records. I don’t have proof of my exact day, but I tried to get it. by then, it had been 30 years though, so needless to say, the records weren’t available anymore. I gathered circumstantial evidence, and figured out the most likely day, and that’s what I celebrate now. So my thought is do it, even if you feel ambivalent or indifferent about having the exact date now. The day could come when you really do wish you knew the exact day, but it might be too late to get your hands on the records.
Either way though, I’m all about my ice cream sundae to commemorate the occasion, and wish myself many more ice cream sundaes
August 12th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I don’t celebrate it. It’s not like it was a good thing
But mine is very easy to remember: 8/8/88! Also, I can easily remember how old I was by the cake Mum made for my fifth birthday. We had a McDonalds kids birthday party, with all my friends, and because I had been diagnosed roughly a month earlier my cake was not the traditional sugary chocolate or strawberry concoction. No. It was a bland cake with cream-cheese icing and kiwi fruit (tart flavour) decoration! I was mortified! Mum had tried sooo hard to give me a normal birthday, but my friends just didn’t know what to make of that cake! 
August 12th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
And there I thought you were diagnosed after me! I read your tudiabetes profile when you had yourself down as type 2. I’m coming up 4 years diagnosed and I always struggle with claiming that I’ve had diabetes for x years because I was so sick for so long before dx. But I definitely plan to celebrate my Insulin Day. I’m not celebrating diabetes and I’m not celebrating victory, I’m celebrating the miracle of insulin.
August 13th, 2010 at 9:22 am
A day late and a dollar short…. not really a day late though.
Scottie J says we should do a month long celebration.
I like your celebrating Each Day though.
25 years this past May 15th. I only “chose” the date because of some paperwork I found.
It may not be that Day or the month but I know how many years it’s been.
And I know what today is….Friday and I’m still survivin’ the D.
((hugs))
August 16th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I blogged about this crazy idea of “celebrating” diabetes recently too…albeit along slightly different lines.
I found my D-Date only through my mom’s letters to her family in Ohio from back in ’81 when she chronicled (did I spell that right?) the experience for them. Funny how so many of us want to track that date down for some reason. Seems a strange thing to “celebrate”, but I do it too!
August 22nd, 2010 at 4:36 pm
I used to just celebrate the whole month!
I did eventually track down the records, and now I have a “date”. But it was still more fun celebrating the entire month.
And no, it’s not a good thing that we got diabetes, but I do celebrate all of the hard work we do to live life fully with it.
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