Nell Carter Quotes

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

I have friends who don't even know I'm diabetic. I don't hide it, but it's the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That's how I deal with it.

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

I believe very strongly - and I never brought this up as a player - but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn't have diabetes - nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn't know what to do about diabetes.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

Two-thirds of people with diabetes don't realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don't realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you've got to get this thing under control.

I was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus Type 1.

Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.

We're getting closer. I believe a 5-year-old with diabetes will live long enough to be cured.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.