I sure know where you are coming from. When I was younger I couldn't get motivated to manage it either. I found I could control my weight by letting my B sugars get really high. I didn't seem to notice any adverse effects from it either. My best friend, Emily, was diagnosed the same time I was. We were best friends for 32 years. She died in April of last year.

If I could go back and take this disease seriously, I would do it in a heartbeat. I ended up having open heart surgury, triple bypass, stents, Diabetic Gastric Parisis, Diabetic Retinopothy, a Viterectomy on my left eye, Neuropothy in my hands and feet and Charcot's syndrome in my right foot and that is just the half of it. I am legally blind, I can't drive anymore, my foot is so deformed I have to have special shoes made. I have no feeling in my feet at all but the pain in them is so intense I have cried.

Now that I have lost Emily, I have no one to talk to about how much having T1 Diabetes sucks. Why couldn't I just have listened to the Dr.s all along and taken better care of myself? I suffer because of it now, but I figure it might not be too late to try again.
My friend had to have both of her legs amputated. I saw what she went through, and she really suffered. I want to stave that off as long as possible.

I'm probably much older than you, but I still feel like a kid inside, does that count? I would be glad to be your buddy, and I promise not to preach to you. I would just hate for anyone to go through what Emily or I have been through if you can avoid it.