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meds 🌸💉

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I either want to talk about diabetes nonstop and be super open about it or I don’t want to talk about it at all and push it away but there’s no in between nope

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the next time you think you’re lonely, just remember you have about 25 billion white blood cells in your body protecting your sorry little ass with their life. you have 25 billion friends who would die for you. no need for tears.

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That pump site change in the dead of night because it's break and you stay up way too late (and you noticed there were 3 units left...)

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When your pump falls straight out of your pocket and rips your site out...

Good morning pump

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so at clinical today we had a guest speaker who was an endo nurse practitioner and gave a lecture on diabetes and this one thing she said i really liked and stuck with a bunch of my classmates

“diabetes is a disease of the pancreas, not of the mouth” 

i know a lot of people think diabetes and think “too much food” “overweight” “lose weight and exercise and youll control your blood sugar” ((and thats even whats taught in my nursing classes two weeks ago - that lifestyle change comes before medication but thats not really the right path most of the time))

she also said that “if diabetes was a disease of the mouth, everyone would be diabetic.” 

i just thought thats a little piece that we need to hold on to sometimes, that its the same as if you had any other organ failure, and isn’t your fault at all and you cant control what your body does sometimes

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@acskywalker​

this is what I've been going thru for 6months w my 630g and I never got shipped my supplies. Medtronic has even horrible to me and I pretty much got forced into the 680& I'm praying that it works better and they'll actually send me my supplies on time... like they're supposed to

Ugh, sorry to hear about that. From what I hear, the Guardian sensors are on backorder and a ton of people don’t have access to the sensor that makes the hybrid-closed loop even possible. I switched from the trial version to the commercial version recently and oh boy. Even that switch took an adjustment so I can’t even imagine how some people are dealing with the system right now. *Note: I am still in the extension arm of the original clinical trial. My insurance (which doesn’t cover the 670g) has no part in my diabetes management, as the trial provides me with all supplies, excluding insulin

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When you don’t believe your meter so you test 3 times in a row to figure out if your first test was a lie

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Hot Cheetos

When you eat hot cheetos, you suddenly see where all the times you've poked your fingers.

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having an unreasonable amount of medical knowledge

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We fixed them

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dexcom: YOU ARE 53 AND FALLING

me: dexcom I am 98

dexcom: okay... you are 72...

- twenty minutes later -

dexcom: YOU ARE 54 AND FALLING

me: dexcom I am 96

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IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER

you have to come to terms with the fact my chronic illness is in fact, chronic

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How to deal with your pump, a step-by-step guide

Pump: *makes noice*

Me: shut up

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My body’s trying to kill me, but hey, I still got work to do

Me, about living with a chronic illness (via jaiwren)

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*eats bread, potatoes, pizza, etcetera* Nonbetics: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*eats small amount of candy* Nonbetics: NOO YOU ARE DIABETIC