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anyway type 2 diabetics i'm sorry about the world. everyone* be kind to type 2s or else

Me when my number is 300 when it used to be 500 mg/dL:

Imagine driving a car that has a one hour lag between when you turn the wheel and when the car starts actually turning, and imagine that everytime you make any little adjustment it will continue to effect the car’s direction for over three hours.

Plus imagine that:

a.) you can only look up at the road when you stab one of your fingers until you physically bleed OR

b.) you can look up about every 5 minutes, but what your looking at has a 10 to 15 minute delay (and sometimes you just go randomly blind because you were sitting weird or something) AND -for those of us in the US at least- you have to pay a ridiculous amount of money just to have the privilege to be able to see the road.

In addition to all that, imagine that you can never stop driving- you can’t pull over, you can’t stop when you are sleeping or having a bad day. You can’t stop just feel like you need a break. You have to keep the car on the road or you die.

As a med student I’ve seen some other students and even some doctors be very judgemental about how people handle their chronic illness. Some people will assume that people who are struggling are just lazy or stupid. But unless you live with it every minute of everyday, you have no idea how exhausting and challenging it really is. Please be kind, please be supportive we’re all just trying to keep going, however we can.

Hungry? You could be low 

But if you don’t sacrifice your blood first 

Me when my number is 300 when it used to be 500 mg/dL:

There’s a lot of focus on people “defying the odds” and showing that their disability “can’t hold them back”.

But here’s the thing... sometimes your disability does hold you back. Sometimes, no matter how much you want to, you can’t do some things.