Words matter. These are the best Diabetic Quotes from famous people such as Randy Jackson, Damon Dash, Stephen Furst, Dick Van Patten, Brooklyn Decker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.
The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I’ve been saying I’m diabetic; it’s just, people don’t write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren’t spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.
Every little thing I’ve done as an adult and as a young adult, I’ve done diabetic.
When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.
I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here’s what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It’s like that constantly. It’s not painful, but it’s so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.
My dad is a Type 1 diabetic. I grew up in a household where we were really conscious about cutting back on sugar because we had to for his health.
I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who’s been diabetic his entire life. He said, ‘I really wanna get into stand-up.’ I was like, ‘Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.’ I care about that.
To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don’t follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.
My son, Sam, is 15 years old, and he’s been a diabetic since he was 2. When you’re a parent of a child with any kind of chronic illness, these things don’t go away. You have a lot of good days, but some days you feel like you’re losing bad.
I have friends who don’t even know I’m diabetic. I don’t hide it, but it’s the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That’s how I deal with it.
I’m fine, but I’m bipolar. I’m on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I’m never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It’s like being a diabetic.
I have been diabetic since I was young.
I don’t want to become a diabetic.
I had it all: congestive heart failure, malignant high blood pressure, kidney damage, enlarged heart, sleep apnea, borderline diabetic, etc.
As a diabetic, I’m a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That’s going to make the job of being a diabetic so much easier.
Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn’t take care of myself.
I am the world’s worst diabetic.
I was going into a slump during ‘Ironman.’ I found out I was a diabetic around that time, and I was just stressed out. My mind wasn’t all the way there.
The typical response from people when I tell them I’m diabetic is, ‘Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.’ You know, I’m not. I’m a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. I’m more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. I’m more proactive about my health.
For diabetes in particular, we know there’s a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn’t that be great?
I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don’t have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight – you know – for most of the diabetes.
I’m diabetic.
As a diabetic, I was fortunate to have good health coverage through my employer prior to and during my first run for office in 2004.
I’m an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I’m actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it’s support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.