#diabetes is stupid

[ihopeicanchangethislater05]

why is there NOTHING said about wilson's diabetic cat?

did sara run away or did she die?

????

[da-janela-lateral]

Silly boy why are you trying to kiss your boyfriend when you're too drowsy to see him

[hipstersoulgushers-art]

Facecanons for the reds n blues now that I’ve been hyperfixating for over a year

[fetching-sketching]

begging on my hands and knees for medical articles to specify what type of diabetes they're talking about in the headline. please please please

[crabussy]

hi gang. moisture question. does anyone else turn into a horribly dry beast at night. I’m talking fingers so dry they feel weird to straighten out. NO sweat. so extremely thirsty. constantly drinking never quenched. but during the day even out in the heat I am thriving I drink plenty of water I am a sweat MACHINE (bandaids fall off as soon as I put them on). why are my moisture mechanisms just fucked.

[wrenthetitmouse]

Hot tip: if you tell someone with diabetes (of ANY type) what they can or cannot eat or question what they’re eating… try shutting the hell up

[trek-tracks]

Being a Type 1 diabetic Trekkie means that sometimes your two autocorrect suggestions are “insulin” and “I, Sulu”

[girlivealwaysbean]

it's not sinking in that today might be the last day in my house and town for many months to come

[bone-evidence]

Coleslaw tried to kill me and it means I can't type on an actual keyboard rn :/

[type1diabetesinfandom]

Specifying a type of diabetes when saying crap like 'lol this fic is going to give you type 1 diabetes!' does not, in fact, make you sound smarter

It makes you sound dumb

NO type of diabetes is caused by eating excessive sugar! Get this through your heads please

*type 2 is at least EXACERBATED by high carbohydrate diets, not that that's an excuse to keep using this stupid phrasing. But type 1 has NOTHING to do with dietary sugars at all!

[thel1ghtningthief]

if youre not diabetic and make diabetes jokes i want you dead. btw

[sunshine-and-sprinkles]

My blood sugar has been consistently spiking around 8:30-9:00pm for the last week (at least??) and I keep thinking my pump would for sure have recognized and adjusted for that by now but it just keeps happening 😫 I’m doing really well mental-health-wise not having to micro-manage my blood sugar but I was doing a lot better numbers-wise when I was!

[remusawoooo]

do you think Sirius likes baking with Harry’s kids?(in AU where he didn’t die ofc)

hii

sometimes the cooking in ootp seems like coping to me but at the same time I don't want to think too much about everything so I love the baker/chef sirius. in a universe where he enjoys baking, he definitely enjoys baking with his grandchildren. it's their favorite activity cause sirius let's them have the weirdest combinations of flavors.

eyeballs ingredients while cooking but precise when baking! he let's the kids do the frosting ofc, nothing is too silly here. will they have classic flour fights? sirius letting lily get away with eating the icing while he told off james just a few moments ago. albus is too focused on getting the shape he wants out of the piping bag. Harry leaning against the door, secretly wanting to join in and then being prodded into mixing the batter under sirius' instructions like hes brewing a potion. (we have to sneak in harry&sirius baking in here, sorry)

I think he likes it a lot :")

thank you for asking, pls tell me more, what do you think??

[loderlied]

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[fetching-sketching]

shoutout to that one time in high school i managed to convince one of my classmates that if i bit him and drew blood i would infect him with t1d

[her-no-bivore]

Things that p*ss me off

Technology edition!

So- my parents are both diabetic and have cgm's (Continuous glucose monitors), which are little devices stuck on their arms that measure their blood sugar, then send that data to their phones every five minutes. Useful, right?

Switching topics real quick, I have a pair of over the ear Bluetooth headphones that I wear almost consistently, (ADHD and autism- helps me think clearly, lol).

Now- what upsets me is that my 25 dollar headphones (that don't even have active noise cancelling or touch, or anything fancy), have a range of roughly 100-150 ft before they disconnect. As in, I can leave my phone at one end of my house, go outside, to the other end, and into my neighbors yard, and still be able to hear my non life saving music.

My parents can't even go into an adjacent room without their disconnected alarm going off.

Let me repeat that, my 25 dollar headphones have over triple the range of my parents >100 dollar life saving cgm.

Oh- and don't forget it's not even accurate 70% of the time and that it has to be replaced every few weeks.