#like people with diabetes do

[dreamswillbeyourwintermeat]

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

[thealienmoth]

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.

[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

[maximura]

[queenzufufu]

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.

[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.

[startrekin-it]

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

[paranoidkid]

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

[writingforfishes]

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

👁️🪱👁️

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.

[savetheghost]

theoretically

i could get a tramp stamp

[sucresanguine]

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.

[lesbienneanarchiste]

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.

[jitteryjive]

woah you totally got her by also bodyshaming her and being ableist!!!!! you’re so cool!!!!!

[here-there-were-dragons]

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.

[kasumingo]

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

[xcziel]

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