Subtle Accusations
February 5th, 2010 admin
Sometimes it’s the incessant sense of failure with diabetes that gets me down. It’s not so much about strangers making stupid comments, or even me beating myself up for not doing a perfect job of managing my BG levels every day… it’s more about the subtle accusations of people closer to me, those who I
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