God bless you it is scary type 2 diabetes but it is a slow progressing process and there are many things that you can do and even Small Things help adding vegetables eating good good healthy fats instead of a deep fried there's many things you can do to help get rid of sugary drinks get rid of all kinds of sugar sugars of poison to a diabetic there's all kinds of good things you can eat berries blueberries mixed berries the Frozen kind I like best they're almost like eating ice cream and I eat them with them low fat cottage cheese or no fat cottage cheese or yogurt and it's it's really good you don't have to give up everything chicken breasts baked chicken baked fish salmon there's all kinds of things I I get Ezekiel 4.9 bread it's very good it doesn't have flour in it there's also a lot of things like spinach it helps it helps a whole lot they had spinach to your diet avocados are very good there's all kinds of good things and these things in small amounts make big differences and you'll see your A1C go down quickly I've seen mine go down from 6.4 to 6.1 and I've had diabetes since I was in my 50s and I'm now 73 I have never had to take insulin I think God for that he's the great position he loves us he died on the cross for our sins and he's ready to help us that he will use anything in our lives to get our attention so that will turn to him from our sins and trust him as our Lord and savior I pray a lot find a good church that preaches the Bible and you find plenty of help in prayer and in counsel and in encouragement and there are people in church that have diabetes and a whole lot worse and they help each other prayer and encouragement and fellowship and it always helps to have a good pastor that you can talk with about these things doctors are very limited if they don't know the lord they're very limited and although the Lord uses doctors to help people