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About Me 

Brian Foster - Diabetic, Advocate, Athlete, and now blogger.......

So who am I? Hi, I'm Brian Foster, and diabetes is my life. It doesn't have to be, but it is for me - and I'm happy with that. I'm not thankful for my disease, but I have learned to make the best of it. Because of my disease, I have a job in diabetes care, a loving wife (yes, we met at work), a passion for health and fitness, and a group of friends that seems to be growing by the boatload as we find that we share this terrible disease. If you have diabetes, you don't have to let become your life, but you do have to accept it for what it is. 

Because of my diabetes I developed an interest in writing. Not a talent for writing mind you, but an interest. When i was a kid I had to keep logbooks on what i ate, how much insulin i took and what my bloodsugars were. Those things werent always done to my parents and health care providers expectations, but i did learn to write a lot. Everything I was feeling about my diabetes, the good the bad, the high, the low, the ugly, and the really ugly. It never made it go away mind you, but it always seemed to help. 

So fast forward to the present, and my blog. The blog isn't that much different from the journals i kept all those years, except I'm writing it out in the open for the whole world to see. Not that anyone is going to read this mind you, but I have to hope. Writing helps me get a lot of my issues out, if it helps someone to read it and comment that they feel that way to, well, then the blog is worth it. 
Check ya later.....

About the Guru

The Guru - immature, ridiculous, and common sense challenged, Brian's alter ego....

The Guru is, well, he's kind of hard to describe. He's a little bit of a smart alec, and a little bit of a dumb alec (and alec should really should be replaced with another word, but this is after all a PG kind of blog).

The Guru actually began when I wrote a sports column in college called Foster's Roster. I loved writing around everything that athletics had taught me. But then again I also loved to write absolutely ridiculous articles that made no sense what-so-ever. And since writers can sometimes get pigeon holed into writing one style, it became hard to write a column where one usually writes meaningfuly and insightful thoughts (at least in my own mind) but occasionally wrote insane ramblings that probably belonged in an publication  of 'Cracked' (are they still around?)

I also began to notice how different my personality became whenever I had a low or high blood sugar. And so what i noticed is that I liked writing from differnt styles, and the only way to push forward with that idea was to have two different writers, myself, and the Guru.