Today I got this Casio G shock from a friend who knows that I collect watches, he had seen it while on vacation and figured it was a nice gift. actually I kinda pestered him into getting it for me as an addition to my collection.

As I sit here and try to tinker with it as usual before I put it in a hermetically sealed box and display it prominently with my other collection I cant help but wonder where this obsession with time is headed, maybe time will tell, no pun intended.

It got me thinking of my diabetes management and like most why I always regret not starting it sooner, you would think someone as obsessed as me would have been right on it at diagnosis but you would be wrong.

the statistics are somewhat staggering but understandable as well.

Because when you get the news  that you are diabetic, the next typical reaction after shock of course is the fact that many tell themselves that they have a lifetime to manage this disease.

There is a lacking sense of urgency associated with other disease diagnosis and the psychological changes of diet and exercise are not so easy to abandon, so the prototypical reaction becomes an exercise of putting it off till the next day, week, month or year.

Many of us know however that time waits for no one and that by diagnosis, your organs are already facing degradation from exposure to high glucose levels.

Those most feared nasty and expensive complications are suddenly not as far off as we think.

Alarmingly most complications, even the subtle ones like vision impairment, dental issues and erectile  dysfunction typically happen in the first decade of diagnosis.

The old proverb, a stitch in time saves nine happens to be the best metaphor I can think of  for the swift tough love kick in the rear, get the diabetes management going as soon as possible to ward off the disaster that’s looming in the horizon.