just a victim of irrational design

also want to add I was hoping that jumping rope would help bring down a high blood sugar and instead it... removed my source of insulin 👍🤦‍♂️

hey, if you have a sensor lodged in your arm, read this and make sure it's working OK

I think if providers laugh at us while we’re explaining our concerns we should be able to turn them into piñatas for precisely 40.3 seconds

Let’s learn the meaning of that funny word that everyone else uses before adding it to our daily vocabulary <3

eating sugar is not a primary cause of diabetes. eating junk food is not a primary cause of diabetes. when you make jokes about "getting diabetes" over sugary, junk filled food, you are enforcing stereotypes that end with diabetics developing deadly eating disorders or experiencing medical abuse and neglect. Yes, it is that deep. Stop making diabetes jokes, you look like an uneducated bigot

Just because someone else who has the same illness as you can work full time or do more than you can, doesn’t mean you can or should do more. Even people with the same chronic illness have different symptoms and severity levels. Try not to view other chronically ill people’s lifestyles as “proof” that you should be doing more. Don’t feel guilty for doing what’s right for your body. 

man sometimes I think back to the early days of covid when so many people at least made a show of caring about each other’s health and taking basic precautions. and I did think wow if one good thing comes of this maybe it’ll be greater awareness of disease transmission and public health issues. as a rly wild fantasy maybe even somewhat better disability awareness / inclusion / accessibility. and instead it seems like between the rampant misinformation conspiracy theories and official policies of ‘back to normal’ giving carte blanche to apathy we’ve ended up worse than we started off. not just with public health infrastructure shredded (which it is) and its credibility in the gutter (which it is) but also with ppl acting like no one ever taught them to cover their fucking cough or even try to avoid sharing their every infection. sure, ppl have always been going places while sick but it used to be considered kind of, idk, gauche? rude? risky? this epi joke has been around for ages - “how far can a sneeze travel? thousands of miles if it’s on a plane!” - but it’s incredibly galling to go through a global crisis in which we DID learn and practice, if briefly, if grudgingly, some of the ways that we could be less sick, and then to have seemingly most ppl decide actually that was annoying and inconvenient and they don’t rly care anyway. and don’t start with ‘aw well some ppl Have to go out when they’re sick—’ you and I both know I’m not talking abt low wage workers with absolutely no other option. the callousness toward illness and the fatalism in not even trying to avoid it actually makes me want to throttle ppl. and then I’m like well of course it went this way. how could it be different. what was I thinking

the lion does not concern himself with “urgent low blood sugar”