Free Write: Friends For Life 2014

So much happened during this year's Children alongside Diabetes Friends For Life 2014 Conference, aka FFL, that I could write a mass - Seriously, half dozen days in addition to damn close 24X7 of learning, laughter, self realization in addition to agreement nigh life in addition to life alongside diabetes  - And  for the past times distich days I've been plagued alongside the question: Where the hell practice I start? 
Starting at the real kickoff is of shape a real fine identify to start - But in addition to thus the post service would pick out gone off inward a Maria Von Trapp twist& that's non the direction I was aiming for - And Lord knows how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE me around  "Sound Of Music!" 
Instead I, decided to start past times setting my kitchen timer. I gear upward if for xx infinitesimal in addition to did a FFL costless write - And here’s what I came upward with. 
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Ironicial: It’ second funny how life works. Every unmarried fourth dimension I attend FFL I come upward domicile alongside no phonation in addition to pass the adjacent calendar week sounding similar a frog - Which is indeed ironical because every unmarried fourth dimension I attend a Children alongside Diabetes Friends For Life  - I abide by my phonation I'm inspired past times thousands of others. 
There’s thus much that hits me similar a ton of bricks before, during in addition to after I attend FFL that it’s difficult to articulate - literally in addition to figuratively  and that there’s a magic that is given from the wearing of the light-green in addition to orangish bracelets that is indescribable unless you're truly wearing one. It’s a feeling of home, of beingness in addition to continually becoming - Feelings I love, postulate in addition to require. 
Feelings in addition to emotions of beingness improve understood in addition to beingness able to improve empathize what life in addition to life alongside diabetes is in addition to how to bargain alongside it. And non but inward my life because it’s non but nigh me, but inward every unmarried somebody who deals alongside diabetes. 
I was reminded how diabetes affects me fifty-fifty when I’m non thinking nigh it - And that others experience the same way.
That I’m non crazy or solitary for feeling overwhelmed alongside my diabetes life sometimes  - That  it’s OK. 
That I'm potent fifty-fifty when I falter- So are you. And the people nosotros dear are strong, fifty-fifty when they falter -- And no 1 is perfect.

FFL is amazing, exhausting in addition to exhilarating all rolled into 1 in addition to for the 3rd twelvemonth inward a row I’ve come upward domicile sans my physical phonation spell having reignited my diabetes voice.
Some sessions had me crying from the realizations of my life... in addition to my life with diabetes.  And around things were shared inward those sessions that I’ve never shared alongside anyone.
What bubbled upward to the surface was freeing in addition to it shed lite on around stuff, but it rocked me. 
But I could part freely because I was inward a identify of trust, love, prophylactic in addition to agreement was huge. So to those of y'all inward the room - Thank y'all in addition to I dear y'all  - let's ALL acquire dorsum on that elevator! ;) 

The Master Lab: An advocacy boot military camp that left me feeling that I must practice to a greater extent than inward reinforced the fact that regardless of the diabetes type, nosotros are all role of the same diabetes trouble solid unit of measurement tree - but dissimilar branches. 
A unmarried branch breaks to a greater extent than easily in addition to is helpless inward a storm, but surrounded past times other branches it bends in addition to  is able to change in addition to displace alongside the menstruum in addition to regardless of the elements - Damn correct I’m for that! 

There were many moments during FFL that had me laughing until I was literally crying in addition to but thinking of those moments brings a smiling to my aspect upward in addition to brings me to improve whenever I mean value of them. 

Moments where I was mothered in addition to I can’t fifty-fifty get down to pontificate on how much I postulate in addition to missy that - And how appreciative I am for all my Dmamas in addition to D friends who are and for those who aren’t mothers (and who are chock total of maternal) in addition to who mothered me none the less - to a greater extent than on that later. 
And every bit a adult woman sans children FFL ever gives me the chance to woman nurture in addition to mentor in addition to that makes my middle thus damn happy. 

Beautiful moments of FINALLY meeting people I consider friends but pick out never met inward existent life - EFFING AMAZING. 

 Moments where I met novel friends in addition to was like: How come upward nosotros are but coming together now?? 

There’s something incredible in addition to damn particular nigh spending half dozen days alongside people, be it inward sessions, at the Starbucks, at dinner, the puddle or inward the foyer that spoke the linguistic communication of diabetes inward all dialects but alongside non postulate for translation. 
It was in addition to volition ever move a return - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 identify to hang my hat, to dear in addition to move loved in addition to identify to choke along becoming - And I am grateful - And stronger because of the people that brand upward FFL. 
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And in addition to thus the timer went BUZZZZZZ in addition to I had to halt writing.
More FFL posts to follow :) 

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