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People live with congestive heart failure for decades, sometimes with very little impact on their daily activities, sometimes with noticeable impairments. No doubt you have been given advice regarding diet, weight management, salt intake, and exercise, for the chf and edema. Only you control how seriously you take that advice.
Diabetes often shortens your life expectancy and can result in pretty dreadful complications, like blindness. Managing your blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, and perhaps medications greatly lessens your risks.
Inactivity is not good for either chf or diabetes. Even from a wheelchair you need to find ways to get physical activity into your daily routine IF you want to improve your health.
Here's the bottom line: you are going to die. Maybe from one of the conditions you have recently been diagnosed with, maybe something totally different. Between now and then you have a lot of control over what your life is like. If you want to sit in a chair, play games, and watch television while wondering about how/when you are going to die and what your future will be like, you are certainly entitled to do that. Maybe you will want to do that for a short while as you adjust to these big new diagnoses and then get on with your life.
If you want to, you can maintain contact with your friends and family, you can figure out ways to get out and about with your wheelchair, you can take charge of your eating and exercise and take medications as directed. You can plant an indoor garden of herbs (or maybe an outdoor garden). You can learn to crochet or knit or quilt. You can join the Red Hat ladies or hang out at a local senior center. Are you a good reader? Maybe you could volunteer to read a chapter a week at the senior center or at a childcare center.
You can sit around waiting for the effects of your diseases, or you can get as much pleasure and satisfaction out of your life as it is, and take steps to minimize the chances of dire complications.
Your choice.