#like people with diabetes do
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dreamswillbeyourwintermeat · 10 months ago
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It's all fun and games until you become anemic and/or get an infection from cutting your hand open every other scene to prove you're not a changeling
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thealienmoth · 11 months ago
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Sometimes you go "nyah!" As a tic and people are like "aw that's adorable, I wish I had tourettes!".
And then you tic "I SHAT on your pillow!" with the deepest gravely voice your body can produce and suddenly everyone is uncomfortable.
Please decide if my disability is desirable or not, I need to know what the value is for pricing.
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tj-crochets · 29 days ago
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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
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maximura · 7 months ago
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queenzufufu · 7 months ago
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To all those numpties that say Ed "goes on" about his diabetes all the time, the guy literally had a hypo on stage and only casually mentioned it in an insta story after the fact.
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doctor-disc0 · 2 months ago
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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.
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startrekin-it · 7 months ago
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Woke up last night with two hypos that i barely had the brain activity to fix, and i no longer own Jelly Babies. Desperately hoping we don’t have a repeat performance
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paranoidkid · 5 months ago
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helppppp being disabled is so expensive fuuuck. i have like. an old insulin pump (~6 years old?) and my endocrinologist said I should get a newer model and the CGM that goes with it which runs in a loop, and that would be AMAZING for my blood sugar and keeping me a1c down but… out of pocket with the insurance I have right now (deductible not met) is $2,000 . and goddamn I do not have $2k . they have a payment plan but it’s like $50/mo for 4 years and I might die if I commit to that. but wouldn’t a new pump and cgm that work together be nice… on top of having a new service dog also??
just for the record at my current job I make $10/hr + tips and work ~25h/wk which obviously isn’t great and then I have to pay 525.60 to my dad for rent (cringe) and then leftover from that I have maybe $200 every two weeks to keep to myself but it doesn’t even keep to myself because I have a new puppy and I go to therapy and am disabled so I have doctors appointments and debts and it’s just like come ON man does everything have to be this expensive ???? why does my CGM sensor right now cost 37.99 a piece and my quarter yearly endo appointments cost $45 for just the appointment not including the debt I have accrued for the labs and other various testing that’s like $608 right now… ON TOP OF THE $1.4K DENTIST DEBT I HAVE ??!!?!? it’s over for me. fuck
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writingforfishes · 2 days ago
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brain decided to math for once in its existence, against my will at that (random realization entirely unprompted while i was writing), and i realized that u woulda been around high school ish when my parents were in college and uh that's definitely a conscientious post-infantile amnesia sentient age
so i must ask
where were you on september 11th, 2001
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What a question!
CW: Death, sui*, bombings, shootings, racism
I was a junior in high school. I was in my psychology/sociology class.
We had a large television hanging from the ceiling in the corner of the classroom. The teacher turned on the news. That's where I saw the second plane hit. The first plane had already struck by then.
I think I went to another class after. I don't recall what it was. I think the teacher was female. She had a tv on, too. The news kept replaying the planes hitting over and over again.
We were excused from school early. I guess they called everyone's parents? I'm not sure, actually. I don't even recall if I came home on a bus or if my mom took me home. It might've been my mom.
She said they reported it on the news on the radio in the car on her drive from work to home over and over again. When I got home, we had the news on there for a while, too.
Then there was a plane said to be headed for the capitol.
As a teen, I didn't fully comprehend the danger or fear. I couldn't. I didn't have a full scope of life and what it meant on a social level or, more importantly, societal level. I didn't understand how it all connected, really.
But I picked up the appropriate emotions from everyone around me and what they said. At first, I thought it was a joke. It felt so alien a concept to me that I recall laughing with a friend in class. I just didn't know how to process it. Was it the worst movie advertising scheme ever?
I had a friend (I still have them) in New York at the time. They talked about ash covering everything.
At one point they pointed out on the news during their many replays the people who were actively jumping out of the buildings. They talked about how those people knew they wouldn't survive the jump, but it was a decision between letting a collapsing building with (at the time what the people inside thought was) a bomb, or taking a "chance", even though it would most likely kill them.
They talked about people sending texts or calling their loved ones as the buildings were going down. Last words.
There was fear after. Lots of fear. People thought we could be a target because of some of the stuff that was nearby.
I remember not long after the attack our school put up handmade informational posters about Muslims and about Islam to curtail the racial distrust and attacks which had already begun. We had a pretty decent sized Muslim community. I'd never even heard of Islam before that.
I remember President George W. Bush was reading to a bunch of kids in a library, and it was a really big deal that he didn't do anything when the attack was happening. He just sat there and continued to read to the kids while towers were falling down, and planes were exploding. I think about that now and wonder what was going through his mind as he turned the pages after someone whispered in his ear. I wonder if he thought he was doing something right or good or if he was just too damn scared to react. I might've done the same thing for both of those reasons.
I recall making an art piece in my class about it. I don't remember what anyone said about that art piece. I know my mom was moved by it.
It was weird cause the whole country seemed to change after that. The entire DNA of the U.S. shifted into...something else. Hate crimes sky rocketed. Rudy Guiliani was lauded as one of the best mayors ever for his reactions to the attack. People united at the same time people were attacked for being brown and Asian.
My generation saw some of the first mass school shootings. Bowling for Columbine as a big documentary at the time. A mysterious backpack led to my entire school being evacuated in high school. We lost the WTC (an acronym for buildings I'd never even knew existed before that day).
It was weird. It was overwhelming and tragic. One of the most bizarre things I remember from it was there was some sort of weird conspiracy about Wingdings. I looked it up. Of course, it was fake. But what a bizarre to recall in such a hectic time.
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savetheghost · 9 months ago
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theoretically
i could get a tramp stamp
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lesbienneanarchiste · 9 months ago
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I already decided I wasn't gonna even think abt that Dr anymore until monday but to get it off my chest, this man literally looked at me and decided to talk abt diabetes for 10 minutes and how I needed to cut down on carbs despite a) me having no history of insulin resistance or glucose issues, b) not asking me what/how I usually eat, and c) then when I went to get blood work done, guess whose a1c and blood glucose levels are completely normal??? It's almost like I don't have diabetes or smth 🤔 but drs see a fat person and insist on wasting my fuckin time. I was literally at that fucking office for 2.5 hours. I'm so pissed off abt this. I hope he dies.
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sucresanguine · 11 months ago
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it is genuinely weird to me that diabetes (both type 1 and 2) rarely comes up in people's concept of disabilities, both as a visible and invisible one. Especially given that type 2 is relatively common, and that type 1 is imo very distinctively visible and often quickly physically disabling. Lots of medical equipment and lots of room for error with immediate physical consequences.
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jitteryjive · 1 year ago
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woah you totally got her by also bodyshaming her and being ableist!!!!! you’re so cool!!!!!
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here-there-were-dragons · 7 months ago
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as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.
this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.
#a lot of people literally refuse to even eat ham or pork#not even for like religious or health reasons#just because they think eating anything but beef and chicken is 'weird and scary and gross'#every time i hear people going on en masse about how 'weird and an acquired taste' something foreign is i go and try it and i'm just like#what the fuck were all of you smoking. where is the unbearable weirdness i am supposed to be experiencing#shoutout to that time i kept hearing about how bizarre a flavor milkis soda is and how intimidating and acquired of a taste#then when i actually try the stuff. it's just fucking peach soda. it's peach soda with a faint tangy yogurtish taste. it makes good floats.#how in the absolute fuck is anything even remotely weird much less gross about this?#unless your concept of what a 'soda' should be is poisoned by a lifetime of the entire soda aisle being filled with nothing but brown sludg#from the same 3 brands that all taste like what would happen if they could distill the concept of diabetes and artificial flavoring syrup#i don't know if other countries have this but there's this weird cultural like mandatory rejection of any 'unusual' food here#way more intense than i've seen from anyone from any other country (though that might just be inexperience with other cultures talking)#people react to the mere suggestion of any food outside a very narrow range with outright disgust and genuine fear and horror#and there's a huge amount of unspoken peer pressure on everyone to also do the same#like you're expected to agree with them and you've breeched some sort of silent social contract if you don't#it's seen as *immoral* almost it feels like#it's difficult to describe unless you've noticed it yourself#americans react to the mere suggestion of eating anything outside of the same 2 meats and handful of fillers the same way#that pearl-clutching aristocrat grandmas react to hearing that people in foreign countries do.. basically anything#it doesnt matter if you're suggesting eating ube cake or suggesting eating live bugs because people will react the same way#everything that's not chicken/beef/ect is as good as bugs to people here#hate this stupid blandass country and how impossible it is to afford any food other than burgers if you're not rich#or blessed with relatives that have any idea how to cook and are at all willing to teach you#cause nother weird thing i've noticed about food culture-or at least wasp food culture-that i haven't seen anywhere else quite the same way#is that if you DO have any relatives that know how to cook then nine times out of ten they will jealously guard their recipes like a dragon#and refuse to share them with anyone#thus taking whatever little cooking knowledge was in the family to their grave#so the opportunity other people usually have for family bonding via passing on recipes? pffft no.#for some reason we seem to actively go out of our way to prevent these things from being passed on#i don't know what the fuck is up with that but i suspect it has something to do with 50's dinner party oneupmanship
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kasumingo · 1 year ago
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Got blocked by the OP of the diabetes post by saying that sugar IS considered one of the factors in type 2 diabetes 🥴
And it is super important to take it into consideration because eating refined sugar freely and drinking high fructose syrups and syrup-spiced drinks WILL fuck you up and potentially lead to life-threatening conditions in the long run
And that doesn’t mean cutting off sugar completely but be mindful what you put in your body lmao - you *do* need carbohydrates but carbohydrates do not mean white sugar and corn syrup - and your body can convert them from other sources AND healthier sugars
Feed yourself the best quality foods just like you’d your pets and loved ones
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xcziel · 1 month ago
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my health insurance company just sent me some kind of testing kit in the mail
i didn't ask for this kit, or agree to submit to any tests, and they didn't ask *me* if i wanted it or was willing to do it, it just showed up
i don't know this company that is evidently behind these kits, i've never interacted with it before, and now they are emailing me telling me to hurry up and do the test and mail it back right away???
like nowhere is there anything saying why i would be willing to do this? my insurance company is not a health provider - and i didn't ask it to connect me with any test-by-mail companies?
i *have* a doctor and in fact have an appointment in a few weeks?
does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? i worry that by submitting this test i'm somehow signing up for something with this random test company. i haven't signed anything or given any approval for them to have access to my medical information, and i feel like sending back the test would be tacitly doing so?
is the insurance company within rights to do this or are they just giving me the 'bum rush' assuming i won't know any better? literally no communication has been from the actual ins. company but everything (envelope, email forwarding) is branded from them
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