True Life Story: Type 2 Diabetes Facts
In this episode of True Life Story, Jimmie shares useful type 2 diabetes facts, as well as discusses how hereditary diabetes can be.
In this episode of True Life Story, Jimmie shares her personal story of how she lives a full, creative life with diabetes. She includes useful type 2 diabetes facts, as well as discusses how hereditary diabetes can be.
Duration: 3:58. Last Updated On: Nov. 8, 2017, 6:14 p.m.
- 00:00 [MUSIC].
- 00:06 My weight throughout my life has been like a roller coaster.
- 00:10 Sometimes I have three different sizes in my wardrobe.
- 00:14 And I'm working on that right now.
- 00:15 [LAUGH] I need to get some off.
- 00:18 A lot of some.
- 00:20 As long as I'm busy being creative and
- 00:23 doing something that fulfills me, I'm not eating as much.
- 00:27 Then I have to watch that,
- 00:28 because that's the downsize 'cuz with the diabetes; you gotta eat the right things.
- 00:32 So, if I get too busy, I'll forget to eat.
- 00:35 Oh, I can lose weight, but then the sugar goes down too low.
- 00:38 So that's not good.
- 00:40 So now I have to learn how to balance my life now.
- 00:42 I love painting.
- 00:46 Joy.
- 00:47 Stress.
- 00:48 Pain.
- 00:49 Whatever, you have inside you that needs to come up and out comes out in colors.
- 00:55 And that's what my paintings is for me.
- 00:57 My grandmother died of diabetes.
- 01:00 My gr, my mother, my father died from complications of diabetes.
- 01:06 Both my sisters have type 2 diabetes, I have type 2 diabetes, and
- 01:11 my granddaughter has type 1 diabetes.
- 01:15 [BLANK_AUDIO].
- 01:20 I was diagnosed last year.
- 01:23 And I was not ready to receive it at all.
- 01:28 I.
- 01:29 I just, I was in denial.
- 01:32 My father just passed last year.
- 01:35 And it was complications of diabetes.
- 01:38 He was really ill.
- 01:41 I remember he showed me his, when his toes was cut off.
- 01:44 I was like, oh, my God.
- 01:45 That just made me sick.
- 01:49 Diabetes took my mother's sight.
- 01:52 And I remember one time, the kids came back to tell me,
- 01:56 ma, grandma had us watching the line in the street.
- 02:02 She is driving down the street could not see what the kids in the car.
- 02:07 Making sure that she stayed on the right side of the line,
- 02:11 cuz she didn't want us to know that she was going blind.
- 02:16 So with all those things, that made me fight
- 02:20 because I didn't wanna see my limbs go away or anything else.
- 02:26 And two,.
- 02:27 It's time for this, I call it a curse of the generations, to stop.
- 02:33 [BLANK_AUDIO].
- 02:37 So I went to the Diabetes Association on, and I looked on their website and
- 02:42 I called.
- 02:44 And I went through a class, which was really, really informative.
- 02:49 They give you the update of the new research and everything that's done.
- 02:53 They can really help you to improve upon your life.
- 02:56 [BLANK_AUDIO].
- 03:01 One thing.
- 03:02 You have to know your body.
- 03:03 You have to know what needs to go in at the time.
- 03:07 Like.
- 03:07 When I'm feeling a little funny,
- 03:09 okay, it's feel like it's going down a little bit.
- 03:12 And you check it, and yes it is.
- 03:14 Then you get the proper things in your system.
- 03:17 So, you listen to your body cuz your body talks to you.
- 03:20 You have to know yourself.
- 03:23 Knowing your family history is very important.
- 03:26 To know who you are, and what illnesses re-occur in your history.
- 03:33 Think about it like this, manage your body, manage your exercise,
- 03:36 manage your eating, live longer, have a fuller life, manage your life.
- 03:45 If you manage it, you live.
- 03:47 It's just that simple.
