Ode to Mixed Emotions

Sometimes I feel very angry or sad about my diabetes (and gluten intolerance!), but a lot of the time I just feel kind of numb about it, like it’s something happening to someone else, and I’m just sitting by and thinking, “Well, that sucks.”The tr…

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