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I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in past tense.
Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
me: you know, it's difficult being diabetic but i don't hate it as much as i think i should. sometimes i even like it. it's an important part of who i am.
diabetes: looks like you've forgotten who's in charge here, bitch. *makes me 560 mg/dL*
What Diabetes Is
Ever since the unicorn frappucino was released, I’ve seen an uptick in “diabeetus” jokes. I’ve also seen people posting pictures of candy and cake and saying “Look at my diabeetus ha ha ha,” as if diabetes is some type of joke.
Diabetes is not a frappucino. There is no such thing as “diabetes on a plate” or “diabetes in a cup.” Let me tell you what diabetes actually is.
Diabetes is a small child dying of ketoacidosis because the doctor in the ER thought that child had the flu.
Diabetes is parents who can’t sleep through the night because they have to get up and check their child’s blood sugar during the night to make sure their child hasn’t gone into insulin shock or diabetic coma.
Diabetes is waking up in the middle of the floor covered in bruises and rug burn because you fell asleep after taking insulin but before eating the food that you took the insulin for, and your blood sugar crashed, causing you to fall off the couch and have a seizure.
Diabetes is having to decide whether there is enough insulin to last until you get paid or whether you will skip a meal or two so that you can take less insulin and save money on groceries.
Diabetes is not getting enough sleep because your blood sugar was too high, meaning that you got out of bed to go to the bathroom multiple times, or too low, meaning that you got out of bed to treat the low and then stayed awake to be sure it didn’t go low again.
Diabetes is going to a trendy eating place and discovering they don’t serve diet drinks because “aspartame is poison” and having them tell you to drink orange juice instead.
Diabetes is finding out that your kidneys or eyesight or digestive system or circulation is failing after you’ve lived with the disease for decades.
Diabetes is having people say “So lose weight and it will go away” or “Your kid got that because you fed them too much sugar”.
Diabetes is living every day with a disease that you know could shorten your lifespan while politicians blame people who have your disease for costing the health care system money, as if it’s your fault your immune system decided to attack you.
When you get thirsty and assume your blood sugar is high, then you check and it’s not, it’s this sudden realization of “Oh, this is what it would be like to simply be thirsty if I was normal”
You’re allowed to complain about your chronic illness You’re allowed to feel sorry for yourself You’re allowed to lay in your bed and do nothing You’re allowed to cry out of pain and suffering You’re allowed to have bad days But please don’t forget…. You’re allowed to have good days You’re allowed to tell your illness to go fuck itself You’re allowed to be happy and not let it get the best of you You’re allowed to live your life You’re allowed to do whatever you want to do because you are not your illness.
Do not define your self worth by your numbers.
You are not trash because your A1C is higher than what your doctors want.
DO NOT compare your self-worth as a diabetic to another diabetic.
Everyone’s disease is different,
You’re still here,
and as long as you are, YOU’RE the one winning.
That’s all that matters.
So take a deep breathe, and remember,
it’s okay to cry
it’s okay to be frustrated.
We are in this together.
I shouldn’t be counting carbs and worrying about dying in my sleep at 14.
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To any of the young ones out there, you guys are incredibly strong. You’re pretty much superheroes without big fancy movies on the big screen.
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#chronicdiseaselife
Me: I'm not feeling too well.
Person: Stay away from me!!! I can't get sick!!
Me: It's not contagious. It's just who I am as a person.
The worst thing about diabetes is you always feel sick. High blood sugar? Sick. Low blood? Sick. In range? So confused it’s in range you feel sick.
“People think diabetes is just physical and even then it’s more physical then they can imagine. It’s blood and scars and black freckles on your fingers. It’s bruises on your body and pink marks on your stomach. It’s scratches and burning as insulin enters the fat and saves you life. And just as it physical it’s mental. A double edged sword. A double wammy. For me, I’d say it’s more a mental battle. It’s telling yourself to keep fighting, to take that needle for the forth time that day. That you can get through it. You can through the depression and the anxiety and the hate you have for a body that’s failed you. That if you can get through today, then that’s another battle you’ve fought and concurred. That it will all get easier. That even though it’s not fair you can overcome it. That there’s hope that tomorrow will be better. And it’s the hope that kills you as it’s not always met.”
(via type1diabetickelly)
To the People Who Make Diabetes Jokes:
I hope you realize that it’s not sugar and “diabeetus.”
I hope you realize it’s waking up at 3AM, shaking and dizzy and using all of your energy to find your blood sugar kit, and then more to find something to treat the low.
I hope you realize that it’s little black bumps on your fingertips from countless blood sugar checks.
I hope you realize that it’s scarring on your stomach, arms, and legs from injections and insulin pump sites.
I hope you realize it’s not being able to just eat anything when your friends do without worrying about a major blood sugar spike.
I hope you realize it’s getting unwanted attention in school when you do a blood sugar check or one of your devices beeps.
I hope you realize that it’s trying to stay in the best shape possible, and still hearing all of the fat and eating jokes.
I hope you realize that we’ve been hearing these jokes all our lives, and we’re going to be hearing them until the end.
I hope you realize that these jokes aren’t cool or funny.
I hope you realize that using our struggle as the punchline to your jokes makes you look like an ass.
#justdiabetesthings that nobody talks about
- catching every single cold and infectious disease ever because your immune system sucks
- bg levels too high? time for excruciating cramps in a random body part!
- when you can feel your bg dropping
- Constant Thirst™
- related: needing to use the bathroom all the damn time
- do i have my meter in my bag? do i have my insulin in my bag? do i have a snack in case my bg drops? do i have glucagon in case i pass out with no warning? do i have my phone in case i need to call an ambulance? do i h
- someone non-diabetic: “why do you always have a bag with you lmao”
- h e a d a c h e s
- sensory overload when you’re hypoglycaemic
- “why do you care about carbs so much lmao”
- “i would have offered you some cake but you can’t eat sugar right? you poor thing uwu”
- when you’re pretty sure your bg is too low but also what if you’re faking it as an excuse to eat something
- “you don’t look disabled though??”
- your friends looking mildly horrified when you casually joke about stabbing yourself several times a day
- when your phone/laptop is low on charge, and you’re like “oh no it’s going hypoglycaemic” but you’re only half joking
- the increased risk of anxiety and depression, to an extent that many diabetic clinics routinely test their patients for symptoms
- finding someone else who’s diabetic and they understand
9 Things you need to know about T1D
1. There is no cure 2. We have it forever 3. Yes we can eat what we want 4. No we don’t need you to. Count every carb in the food you give us 5. Yes a lot of things are 15 carbs 6. Yes we do this for every time we eat 7. Don’t say you know things about it because someone in your family is one (everyone is different) 8. It’s not a wifi hot spot attached to me 9. TEACHERS: my phone is not going off in class it’s my pump
“We are not brave because we have to take injections everyday, instead, we are brave because we are fighting a never ending battle, and at the same time, we have the ability to inspire others who are fighting their own.”
(via type1diabetesme-blog)
i just want to inspire
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I’m literally doing my best but I’m not gonna beg anyone to understand that
