That Stupid Pancreas!

Have you experienced any of the following scenarios? 1. The "Too Much Sugar" Scenario You're enjoying a large piece of chocolate cake and someone comes up to you and says something along the lines of, "Hey, are you sure you should be eating that? Isn't sugar bad for you?" 2. The "What Did You Do To Yourself?" Scenario You're minding your own business and someone comes up to you and asks, "You have diabetes because you ate too much sugar and didn't exercise, right?" 3. The "Let's Rate Your Disease On A Scale From 1-10" Scenario You're explaining about Type 1 to your friends and one of them asks, "Is that the good diabetes, or the bad diabetes?" 4. The "My Internet Search Trumps Your Diabetic Knowledge" Scenario You're at a party and a family friend starts talking to you about how they read somewhere that eating cinnamon does wonders  for blood sugar levels....

For this post I'm going to be talking about one of my favourite things and one of my not-so-favourite things - Harry Potter and Type 1 diabetes. You ask: how are those two things connected?  My answer to that would be, quite simply, that they are not connected in the slightest. So why am I talking about both? Well, the answer to that is also quite simple. I really wanted to make sure I write a blog post this week as I didn't have time to write one last week. As you know, this blog is about diabetes, therefore this post has to talk about diabetes in some way, shape, or form, right? But I can't focus on talking about diabetes when my mind is on Harry Potter . I've been thinking about it literally all day, actually all week. I've tried to stop thinking about it, but I've realized there's just no point in that, so I'm going to write about both. So, my quest for this post is to find some way that Harry Potter intertwines with Type 1 diabete...