For example, she would order something sweet for appetizer, main course, and dessert for a three-course meal sometimes.
At the cinema, before the show starts, instead of potato chips or cheese rings, she would much prefer to have chocolate bars or strawberry-flavored lollipops as snacks.
She also enjoys taking sweet fruits like dates, longan, papaya, lycee, watermelon, grapes, and etc in big portion as she believes natural sweetness like these can never be harmful even consumed excessively.
Therefore, everyone could easily understand too how completely devastated she is now, for being diagnosed with diabetes just recently.
She struggles, and tries really hard to get back to a life where she could still taste her favorite taste, hoping that she could just muddle along and it actually won't hurt as much as what the doctor says.
Strange signs start to surface one after another.
She notices no matter how much she eats, she keeps losing weight; no matter how much she drinks, her mouth is still very dry and she is always thirsty; no matter how often she urinates, she just has to do it again very soon, sometimes in less than 5 minutes; and no matter how carefully she has been taking care of the new cut on her right index finger, it just never seems to heal.
When her skin starts to develop some unknown itchiness and yeast infections, and her legs too begin to suffer from acute pain for no reasons, the doctor warns her once again to quit eating sweet, or she will risk amputations or even her life perhaps sooner than later.
Just like how babies have to give up their pacifiers in order to grow up at some point, she now has to give up her most favorite taste in order to live longer.
But the problem is, she doesn't know if she could still survive without her favorite taste.
You can always choose to live with something that you really adore, but at the same time making your life difficult.
On the other hand, you can also choose to stop living with it, and hence, stop all the painful sensations you are suffering too.
Its always a matter of choice, you just have to figure out which one weighs more to you.
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