Should I cry?

The other day I had a couple of people tag me in a post or mention something about the new Google technology and having the sensor somehow be able to work in a contact lens, here is that story:

http://www.ydr.com/nation-world/ci_24961841/google-develops-contact-lens-glucose-monitor

I'll be honest, I didn't read the entire article because I personally can't stand contacts and this would never work for me. One of the people whom shared the story with me mentioned "oh yes, I forgot its all about Doug" and I missed the point she was making which was this is another potential advancement for people with diabetes or as used in social media #pwd.

This evening I saw another blog article about the Google product and that is below:

http://techland.time.com/2014/01/17/googles-smart-contact-lens-is-cool-but-id-rather-just-have-my-diabetes-cured/#ixzz2r5ykEIcV

The person in the second article who I feel quite close to for two reasons, we're both type one diabetic and he has a pretty cool name, Doug. I disagree that there is too much money being earned to prevent a cure because too much money is being made to treat diabetes but you have to start thinking a bit about which is more important, the treatment or the cure.

A few weeks back on Facebook I asked the following question:

If you donated $1,000 for the next 5 years to help fund finding a cure and because of your good deed you would never be diagnosed with the disease, would you do it?

Today I had someone in my office telling me about all the complications one has in their family because of diabetes related issues, is fear going to help cure my diabetes?

The title of this article is "Should I Cry" but for those who don't know me, a cry could be needed here and there. A shout of frustration occasionally when you seem to be doing everything right and seeing nothing but negative results. Cry, bitch, moan, complain? What good would any of that do? For my college graduation my Mother, Leann Scalia, gave me a pretty cool gift. It was a desk weight and it read "what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

I'll live another day, that's what!

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Aren't New Years Resolutions fun? We hear a ton about people setting them, we hear about people missing them, but when do we have the opportunity to hear a success story? Welcome to my journey, I'm going to have to break up the story into bits and pieces because my mind things about a hundred different things and I'm not quite sure how to segment it all out unless I just write out part by part, so here is my short story, part 1:

Around the holiday season in 2010 I read an article online and I really wish I kept that article because I would really love to give the author credit for their story but it went something like this:

Even though weight loss is a positive goal, most people whom try to lose weight are setting themselves up for failure because its founded on a negative emotion. 

So most people that want to lose weight probably decide to join a gym, do some machines, maybe try some lifting, after all how hard could it be? But to tell you the truth I had no idea how, the article continued by saying:

Try signing up for a 5k or 10k in order to raise money for something near and dear to your heart, if you have a time goal as a part of your fundraising your efforts are yielding a positive result from positive behaviors and weight loss may be a positive side effect.

This makes sense, I'll run a marathon and not raise money for charity, after all this is what I just got done reading? Who the heck knows but as I see it this was my thought process though and eventually it was set, I would run a marathon. At first I was just telling myself, maybe I'd mention something to my wife, then I started telling other people. If you're going to tell someone you're going to run a marathon you better dang well do it right? As I continued to talk about it I had actually convinced myself I could do it.

I researched Twin Cities Marathon, my father George Scalia ran it when he was 50 and my younger brother Robert ran it twice. I remember going to watch my dad run but for some reason I can't recall when my brother did it, or at least I remember him doing it but don't remember going to watch him. Rob let me be my official apology, I'm a jerk and sorry I don't remember supporting you on your marathon ventures big time bad brother syndrom and I appreciate all your support the last three years at TCM. Back on track, I found out Twin Cities opened for registration on February 2nd so on February 1st I went online to sign up at midnight because again if I was signed up I had to do it, right?

I quick checked my email and I still have the auto reply from TCM Confirming my entry into the 30th running of the Twin Cities Marathon. 11:52 pm its time stamped, I could even wait for midnight for registration to open. Its confirmed, race day October 2, 2011 would be my first marathon.