Happy Birthday to Me!

This post isn't really about the birthday that I celebrated over the weekend or about the above picture of the scrumptious Happy Birthday Bouquet but about SUPPORT and most importantly FRIENDSHIP. My dear and always faithful friend of 15 years sent me that cookie bouquet and while the cookies were simply fabulous it's more about the friendship and support that came along with them that is more precious to me than the cookies themselves.

True Friends are hard to come by these days at least for me and when you have gone through many life events some more traumatic than others and that one stand alone friend is still by your side today...it means that this one is connected by the heart, meant to be, a true sibling that God forgot to give me.

"Legs" is that person. She has been my eyes when I couldn't see clearly and been my heart when I couldn't feel my own. And although we don't see each other much in the flesh, we have still maintained that stand alone friendship through emails, texts, special packages sent in the mail and the occasional phone call when Our Sugar Babie isn't carrying on in the background making a phone conversation entirely impossible. She carries the title of "Auntie" and thinks of Our Sugar Babie as her nephew and although she doesn't have any children of her own, let alone a child with diabetes...she still cares, she still listens and she still gets it...or at least, she makes me feel like she does and that is really all that matters...true SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP.

Living with diabetes is challenging and life changing to say the least...but finding the support and friendship while you are trying to manage it all has been even more of a challenge for me. Some are fortunate to have wonderful family and friends who offer help in anyway they are needed, asked or not and really mean it when they say "how can I help?" and grab at the opportunity to take whatever help is offered. While others, manage the daily grind that is diabetes on their own for fear of bothering anyone with everything that is diabetes...our family is the latter.

I really wish that I could say that we have found other "D" families with toddlers in our area to walk this life with us but unfortunately we have yet to find that kind of support. Have I tried to connect with others locally...most definitely. Has it worked out...mostly not...the "D" connection just wasn't there.

So, I am still in search of that "D" sameness in my own hometown and I probably will be for the rest of my life or until God sends that special "D" person or persons into my life to walk along with me. Until that day comes, I will continue to walk one step at a time, with one foot in front of the other and hopefully one day, I will be able to walk together with someone who gets it...whose precious babie lives with "D" too. However, if that day never comes it's okay, for I will always have my "Legs". What a true friend she has always been to me.