Epidemic?

More and more of my friends are discovering they're diabetic. Six meals a day has replaced the "2 plus," or "classic 3." It's really frightening.

One friend discovered that she already has heart damage. A while before the doctor had said that she was "borderline diabetic." When she began to panic someone else told her:

"It's nothing; don't worry."

Well, that was the worst advice she ever got.

"If only I had begun taking care of it then."

By the time she had her next checkup, the diabetes was the real thing, plus.

It seems like the ladies are doing a better job keeping the sugar under control, which is confirmed in this Yahoo news article. Of course, there are exceptions.

More and more friends are packing "small meals" whenever they leave home, to keep themselves, or their sugar, stable.

These things make me nervous. The two most common "creeping illnesses," which aren't really noticed, since they develop so gradually, are high blood pressure and diabetes.

Maybe it's just my age bracket, but it seems like an epidemic is hitting.