“Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level to become too high” – NHS Choices.
Yes, diabetes is a lifelong condition, the NHS clearly states that message. Healthcare professionals break that jaw-dropping news to us and our families when we are diagnosed, we read about it in the papers, it stays in our minds with every injection, cannula change and finger-prick test we do, and we have no way of getting away from this incurable condition that we live with day in and day out.