On what comes next when the diagnosis is scary …
There’s a scene from the movie Aliens where Private Hudson, played by Bill Paxton, gives up when he gets bad news.
Private Hudson : That’s it, man. Game over, man! Game over!
The topic of this particular blog is diabetes. The author, my enchanting partner Lietta, is a fighter. Fighters fight their battles in an assortment of ways.
The process is in fact mostly a matter of trial and error. With new information the first question seems to be, can I trust this. So more research until you have additional sources asserting the same points.
At that point, your trust factor must be called up. In so doing, the informing – which is a process that never ends – leads to confidence factors the come into play whenever things like, medication, diet and exercise are involved. After all, those three things seem to be the most tangible actions involving actual tactics.
The additional mix is contemplation which may manifest itself in an assortment of ways; meditation, prayer, discussion and conversation. In that regard, there is an intangible that can be neither defined nor ignored. The human spirit – whatever that is – receives things from sources not directly connected to the western analytic psychology that focuses on scientific methods that demand measurement.
The human subconscious has always been wiser than the conscious – probably because the conscious lives in a world of increasing distractions, many of which are in the absolutely useless or silly category.
Hunches, intuition, promptings – even informed guesswork are the things from which our greatest inventions, discoveries and applications have come.
Bottom line, when you have to confront something that is not going to go away, the strongest strategy is search, ponder and discern.
You may not succeed. Heck, Lietta and I have a running joke that is kind of related to Private Hudson quoted above.
“We aren’t gonna make it. None of us in the end will live forever. But that does not mean that today, tomorrow or next week the gate will slam shut.
Not there yet.
Still lots of things to get done.
Good bye diabetes! 