I Want To Say, Happy Fathers Day

Next Sunday will be a very hard day for me, I'll try not to think about it but, I know I will be thinking an awful lot about my father, it will be my father's 2nd Father's Day in Heaven, and I think about my father everyday and miss him so very much everyday. Every time I look in the mirror I am reminded of my father, I look just like him. I have a 6 year old little girl of my own and at least my father was around when I got married and was around to know his newest grand daughter and he knew I was finally happy in my life. I also found out about a year ago I inherited something else from my father, I inherited the auto immune disease that took my father from me, my father was an insulin dependent diabetic, he had been one for well over 35 years and he chose not to take care of himself and not take his insulin and not eat right, he let his sugar level get way too high and went into a diabetic coma, they had to amputate one of his legs when they got his sugar level under control and when the woke him up, before he passed he had to have his other leg amputated. About 4 years ago I chose to change my life style and stated to eat healthy on my own and lost a ton of weight, then last summer I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and had to eat even healthier than I was and lost even more weight, I have lost about 100 lbs, and now everything I eat has very little or no sugar and have to take pills every day, one with breakfast and one with dinner, probably for the rest of my life because as much weight I have lost, and being genetic, I can't reverse my type 2 diabetes, My Dr. tells me I am "her poster child for diabetes management" because I am managing it so well. I said " remember I have the motivation and I am not going to let what happen to my father, happen to me. I have that to motivate me as well as my wife and daughter, I want to be around for them ". I know that Father's Day is always very hard on me, because of the loss of my father.😢😢😢😢