Test Kits and Finger Pricks

Just a blog about the everyday annoyances of living with Type 1 Diabetes and other chronic stuffs. Follow my personal blog @givemeanacoustic

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AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania

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diabetes jokes i desperately crave: test strips are everywhere, no one changes their lancet, we all lie to the endo and they know it, the “cures” people send us, “diabetes bingo”

diabetes jokes that need to be kept 8000 feet away from me: “lol food it’s diabetes”, “so sweet i got diabetes”, “if john had 30 candy bars and he ate 25…″, diabeetus

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This made me cry

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You make me happy in a way no one else does…

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There’s literally no justifying to why it costs SO MUCH

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meds 🌸💉

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At least it’s not cancer.

I can’t begin to tell you how many people have said to me, “At least it’s not cancer.”

I’ve known 5 people who have won their fights against cancer. Five. Two of them had stage 4 (my stepdad and my stepsister). My (step)sister had TWO stage 4s. And she’s been in remission for several years.

When you get a cancer diagnosis, it’s terrifying. I get that. I watched my stepdad and sister go through it. But the one thing they had that I never will is hope that one day it will be gone, if it doesn’t kill you first. My stepdad even joked with me, “I’m more likely to be cancer-free than you are to not be diabetic again.” And he was right. And he beat it. He’s in remission. And here I am. Wearing a machine to stay alive. Waking up at 4 am wondering where the hell I am and why I’m drenched in sweat. Stabbing myself every day. Hoping I took enough insulin, but also not too much. Worrying if I’ll ever be able to have children or if I’ll pass this dreaded disease into them if they make it to term. Doing all this while trying to pretend that I’m “normal,” whatever the fuck that means.

But you’re right… at least it’s not cancer.

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y’all. today is a bad diabetes day. so just. no thanks….

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I feel you! I had a bad one yesterday!

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This is a character design sheet for the personification of what a Diabetic “turns into” when they are in Diabetic KetoAcedosis, or DKA. I immediately designed this after hospitalization, drawing out what I felt like I had become while Diabetics have to fight every day not to turn into these mindless zombies whose bodies are cannibalizing themselves and poisoning themselves due to untreated Diabetes. 

Some (but not all) symptoms of DKA personified here are:

Neuroapathy (I fixated on this symptom the most, the painful tingling in my hands horrified me as an artist, making it hard for me to draw)

Easily irritable

Scrambled thoughts

Rapid weight loss (even though in DKA a person often eats nonstop)

Fatigue

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* Also blurry eyes, dumb me forgot to add that as drawn here

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I have two low blood sugar moods: “I can do it myself, don’t help me” and “Please do everything for me”.

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Reblog this if you have Diabetes.

So I have Diabetes and I was just wondering how many other Diabetics are there on tumblr. So Reblog if you have Diabetes. 

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