Just for A Moment

Diabetes is our constant companion. It is always on my mind in one way or another. Every once in a while though, this beautiful thing happens. I forget. I forget about carbs, highs, lows, finger checks, bubbles in tubing checks, test strips, supplies....I forget about all of it. We took Addison Ice Skating at a pop up rink in our neighborhood about a week ago. We were all caught up in the excitement of getting our skates, putting them on and getting out onto the ice. This was Addison's first time skating after all. We were having so much fun. We got out on the(synthetic) ice and to our surprise, Addison balanced! His skates didn't cave inwards and topple him, he was actually balancing! Ho ho! Chris and I were grinning ear to ear and off we went. And I had forgotten. Normally, I would have checked blood sugars before starting an activity  such as ice skating but it had slipped my mind. It was just me and my family out having some good holiday fun like normal people do. A turn around the rink went by and it occurred to me that I had forgotten about D. I felt positively giddy. It was so wonderful to have had that short gift of a moment in time to enjoy my son and husband with my mind unfettered. This moment did not make me go back to thinking about diabetes with resentment. Not at all. We live with diabetes and we do our best to integrate it into our daily existence without resentment or anger or sadness. It is what it is,for the most part. When my mind frees itself though, on occasion, and forgets and I get to just be in the moment without D, it makes me all the more appreciative of how beautiful that moment was.