I remember feeling completely relieved like I finally had an answer and thinking that when I told people that it would be like this "oh, well now we understand" type of thing. Of course, that was totally wrong. No one cared and actually it made things worse.

But, I have to tell you, it's totally normal to feel so many emotions when you get diagnosed with anything. I talk to newly diagnosed people with diabetes all the time and I get a wide range of reactions from the totally calm to the being screamed at, to one woman weeping on the phone for 10 minutes that she had avoided eating ice cream for years yet here she was with diabetes. So, it's toally human to be filled with emotions about this stuff.