  By Linda Rupnow Buzogany, MS  Copyright © 2012  Buy this book
on   Chapter 3  Don't Demand Perfection Unless You Like to Fail
Repeatedly and For the Rest of Your Life  After the medical
visits taper down from the initial marathon session to once
every few months, in a short time you go from helpful,
knowledgeable, and understanding medical staff to a world where
no one else seems to have diabetes or understand it. Daily life
with the diabetes begins and you kind of look around your house
with a bewildered feeling knowing nothing is the same. The
experience changes from, "What will this be like?" to "Here is
what it is."  If cluelessness saved me that first night, it was
pure adrenaline that got me through the next few months. I felt
in a constant state of nervous system activity –my brain and
body emitting a "tired but wired" kind of feeling. There seemed
no time to think about anything else but getting this down,
getting this right, never making a mistake, and controlling
blood sugar.  My personal quest wa