Friday, June 12, 2009

Choice

A couple of pent up rants from the last few weeks.

Since I hang out with a relatively crunchy crowd, I knew that it was only a matter of time before someone told me that it is not good to have radio waves and batteries next to your body all the time. Electromagnetic fields and all that.

So, it finally happened. And I was crochety. It's hard to explain to someone that sometimes there isn't the luxury of choice when you have a chronic illness. Yes, I could go off the pump and the sensor. However, that would mean much worse control than I have at the moment. Fewer electromagnetic fields messing me up, more blood sugar agony messing me up.

So I choose the technology that comes with the batteries and the radio waves, because I've determined that it's what is best for me in the long run. I could be wrong. Sometimes, it's all about choosing the least bad option. Unfortunately. And that's something that healthy people don't necessarily understand.

1 comment:

Gabi said...

Hi Tricia!

Choice...it's a luxury so many don't have. I know I was guilty of assuming people had choices that they didn't before my own diagnoses.

I'm actually waiting for someone to tell me how bad my disease is for the environment...