Darrin I came across this insightful letter written from invaluable personal experience while reading the Insulin Pumpers Digest . Not everyone is willing to be so truthful, courageous, and forthright about how diabetes has affected them and it is for this reason that I find this letter so precious. Only by confronting the past can we even hope to change the future. I've been Type I for about 25 years.
Diabetes Burn Out.
DBO seems to come from decades of trying but never achieving perfect control and holding in one's frustrations about diabetes or it's complications coupled with a lack of emotional support . This however was what my family and doctors wanted to hear me say. The parent's body language says it all. So unless encouraged very forcefully, we kids withhold all our frustrations about daily diabetes management and our fears for the future. Tests are facts to be dealt with.