11/09/2025
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. 💙
On average, someone living with Type 1 Diabetes makes 180 to 300 extra decisions every single day — just about their disease. That’s on a normal day. No illness, no surprises, just the constant, exhausting management it takes to stay alive.
Diabetes does not discriminate.
Diabetes doesn’t care what your job is.
Diabetes doesn’t care if you’re sleeping well.
Diabetes doesn’t care that it’s an invisible, mentally draining disease that never gives you a break.
Diabetes doesn’t care that you checked your blood sugar before your workout and it was perfect — but you saw it trending down, so you had to eat candy just to work out safely.
Diabetes doesn’t care that you’ve lived with it for over 21 years, and that every single day you’re just trying to stay alive — not to get healthier, but simply to survive.
Diabetes doesn’t care that without insulin, you have no more than 24 hours to live. It doesn’t care that your life depends on a medication you must be able to afford — every single vial, every single month.
Diabetes doesn’t care that you have to remember to change your sensor every 10 days, your pump every 3 — and sometimes they fall on the same day, like a double reminder that you don’t get to forget.
It doesn’t care that your pump might fail in the middle of your workday, throwing off your schedule, your blood sugars, and your entire sense of control.
Diabetes doesn’t care that you have glass jars filled with used needles because you always have to keep a sharps container in your home.
It doesn’t care that you might need to drink three juice boxes in the middle of the night because your blood sugar dropped too low — or that you have a full, busy day ahead and desperately need sleep.
This is what living with Type 1 Diabetes looks like. It’s constant. It’s unseen. It’s a fight every single day just to keep going.
💙 Please take a moment this month to learn, understand, and raise awareness for those living with diabetes. Because diabetes doesn’t take a break — ever — and neither can we.
