Why birthdays suck for Diabetics

Why birthdays suck for Diabetics

• First and foremost-birthday cake.  Need I say more?  It's like seeing bubble wrap and not being able to pop it!  Torture!
• Most people get to go out to whatever restaurant they want for their birthday.  Diabetics can not do that. You know we all want to go to the cheesecake factory and snosh on some chocolate cheesecake, but then we'd have to make a pit stop at the local emergency room on the way home.  So, no....we can NOT go wherever we want to for our birthday.
• Drinking!  A lot of people like to go out and "celebrate" for their birthday by having some cocktails....or two, or twenty....but us diabetics, we have to watch our "cocktail" intake so our BG doesn't go down.  Chalk another one up to the non-diabetics. 
• Presents.  Who doesn't like to get nice presents for their birthday?  A lot of people get candies.  A lot of people get sugary sweets.  Us diabetics?  We get ugly sweaters, gift cards, and coffee mugs with "World's Greatest Aunt" and "No, you can't touch it.  You already broke yours off" written on them. 
• And while we're on the subject of candies, if we DO get candies, they're sugar free, and sugar free stuff have tendencies to give you a nasty case of the Hershey Squirts about 3hrs after you eat it.  Nice...."Happy Birthday, here's a box of the shits for you!"

So, in the spirit of the Birthday season, HAPPY FRIKKIN' BIRTHDAY TO ME!