#getting people's blood sugar

[inniave]

Section 504 is under threat.

If you don't know, Section 504 says you can’t discriminate against disabled people if you get federal funding. This includes schools and hospitals; it covers situations such as ASL interpreters for deaf people in hospitals, letting students with type one diabetes receive insulin in schools, wheelchair accessibility, accommodations, and much more.

17 states are suing to completely overturn Section 504. Those states are: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. If Section 504 is overturned, the effects would be devastating.

If you live in one of those states, please contact your attorney general and tell them to drop the suit immediately. You can find the contact information for your AG & an example letter at the link below:

[arionaleilani]

can ppl stop name dropping ozempic in reference to weight loss when it’s literally a diabetic medication meant to help make managing blood sugar levels easier. i am so sick of hearing ozempic be so casually connected to weight loss. non diabetics who use ozempic are improperly using diabetic medications. don’t make diabetic medications become fucking brand names for weight loss when diabetics of all types already have a hard time being taken seriously in the face of jokes about obesity and sugar

[thistransient]

The guesthouse auntie told me to take the bus from Ernakulam but did I listen, nooo

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Another weird question for you: How long do you have to fast for a blood sugar reading to count as a fasting blood sugar measurement? Also, does drinking soda (like, full sugar soda) slowly over the time before the blood test count as not-fasting? Asking because I keep testing* in the fasting blood sugar range when I am pretty sure I am not supposed to. Like, two hours after eating a meal when I've been slowly drinking soda the whole intervening time, or half an hour after drinking a whole full-sugar gatorade *with the home blood sugar test thing, not like doctor's office tests. though I test in the fasting range there too? I do know the word for the tester thing but I am brain fogged at the moment

[oldmanpusspuss]

They were so desperate at my assisted living job that they were like fine come work even though you have restrictions just don't do any heavy lifting. So I worked a morning shift and just like gave residents their meds and got vitals and easy stuff like that lol

[egginfroggin]

Had a bit of a bad spot today

Doodled a little Greg when I felt better

Here's a little Greg for you if you're feeling down

Please hang in there <3

(program: krita; time: like 15 minutes)

[aithne]

Y'all, buying a house is stressful.

[mojo-bro-tho]

Yo wtf I’m gonna shit my pants-

We were at like 850 last time I paid attention djwjdjwodhiwfhwoodw

Crying, screaming, throwing up

[naamahdarling]

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[doctor-disc0]

Me googling "low blood sugar" only to find out that it is NOT common or normal for non-diabetic people to experience. I experience it somewhat frequently.

[shabbyshoebox]

Me, having a hot flash, anxious, can't sleep: "They Are Watching Me Through The Windows. They Are Following Me From The Outside, Walking From Window To Window As I Go From Room To Room. I Know That It's Not Happening And Everything Is Fine Supposedly But I Am FEELING WATCHED!"

Me, two minutes after finally eating something with sugar in it: "Wow that was embarrassing, that's just a backyard out there. Smh."

[savage-rhi]

*insert pink color here*

[littleflorablr]

So how do we accommodate for tinies who need ongoing medications? The ones with depression or diabetes, the trans ones, the ones with heart conditions...

In a world where tinies and bigs have openly coexisted for a while, it's reasonable to suppose that the dosages (and formulas, perhaps) have been worked out and can be obtained. But what if it's not that? If someone just shrinks one day, what happens then? Assuming they don't magically get their bodies fixed in the process... do they have to deal with suddenly going off of all their medications, in addition to the conditions they were to treat in the first place? Do they chip off pieces of pills and hope that it's pretty close to the right amount? What about insulin and other injected medications - nobody makes needles any but the biggest tinies can conveniently use, and they'd have the same dosage issues...

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question time, but let me preface it by saying these are not symptoms I am currently experiencing and also I have talked to doctors about this, I just didn't think to put the two things together For all the migraine havers out there, do you have tachycardia when you have migraines? Either like during the whole migraine, or only with migraines bad enough to cause stomach issues?

[puppydog-princess]

Be a good puppy and eat your food - puts it in a bowl on the floor- and feel better

wahhhhhhhhhhhhh it's not my fault i've just been busyyyyyyy 😖

i finally got the shit done i needed to and now im sitting in the park eating. it's a bit chillier than id like but it beats eating in my office or in my car 😔✊🏻 (my coworker is having a meeting in our breakroom so i had to go somewhere else)

can i have puppy snuggles after i eat 🥺 i promise ill hug you and nuzzle you and give you lots of puppy kisses 🥺

[mojo-bro-tho]

Nearing a somewhat end to this chapter and I’ve just gotta say-

This one has been a little bit of an adventure to write. I’m still struggling with certain aspects of it. It’s a lot of things not quite working for me but I’m kinda reaching a point where the things that aren’t working for me might just be my perfectionism and needing to over explain everything is kicking in.

(Cut to me, rocking back and forth in the corner, telling myself not everyone needs to see the immediate follow up to every scene because there’s a narrative happening in other places and at other times where it works better. I don’t need to make every scene ginormous-)

But I think this is definitely gonna be a love it or hate it chapter. It has a VERY specific purpose that I’m hoping people get and I’m really hoping the way I went about it doesn’t put people off… whatever lol I’m trying to have fun

With luck… tomorrow?