Diabetes: Take Control

Diabetes runs in my family. My grandmother and grandfather, my dad’s parents have diabetes, so does my dad and a couple of my aunts and uncles. My dad always tells me to watch out for the amount of sugar that I consume, and the foods that I eat. I never really paid much attention to it, did not even know what diabetes is. As the years pass by my dad keeps telling me the same thing over and over again. Until one day he told me that maybe in the future I can be diagnosed with diabetes. Having diabetes never occurred to me. I never imagined myself with diabetes, who does anyways? Even though my dad mentioned it to me many times throughout the years, it never came to my mind that this disease will threaten my health one day. But to have diabetes, now that is a different story.
I want to inform myself about diabetes, I want to know everything about it. What is diabetes? Is there just one type or many? Can I do something to prevent it? Am I going to die from it? Is there a cure? All I know is that diabetes is a disease, where there is too much sugar or glucose in your body.
Like I said before diabetes runs in my family, the one that who suffers the most from it is my grandmother. She is always watching what she eats. She checks her blood more than four times a day by poking a small needle to her finger to get a pinch of blood. She also injects insulin when she needs it. Even though it looks painful to me, because needles terrorize me. My grandmother always tells me that it does not hurt, that it is just a little pinch. Other than sticking needles to her body, her feet are another big concern. Her feet ache and she also takes care of them because she has these gashes on them that cannot heal. When I see her, she looks like she is in a lot of pain. Sometimes she can hardly walk because the pain is too intense that her feet cannot support her body. This gets me thinking a lot about myself, because I have a lot of ankle problems. When I walk a lot my ankles, feet