T1D Gal

Type one diabetic here, Every one is welcome☺️💉🌡💞

[chronic-harmonic]

When your blood sugar is 400 and you have insane ketones

[t1dgal]

This is me today

[why-i-love-comics]

Represent! #4 - “Believe You” (2021)

written by Nadira Jamerson art by Brittney Williams & Andrew Dalhouse

[quietstorm-thundathighs]

facts

[unaenanasinamor]

ahhh honey, people lie about being sick

[quietstorm-thundathighs]

Oh illiterate honey that isn’t the topic of discussion

[antique-scarecrow]

always be suspicious when someone tries to derail a conversation by talking about people taking ‘advantage’ of a social safety net. brings this to mind:

[weaselle]

also, a lot of the doctors HATE it. It’s insulting and unhealthy and isn’t how medical science works. 

First of all, your doctor has a waiting room full of people with health concerns. You have an illness that is probably contagious. You know you should stay home, rest, and drink water. Your doctor can do nothing for you except tell you to stay home, rest, and drink water. But instead of doing that, your employer is forcing you to bring your contagious illness to your doctor’s waiting room full of health compromised people.

Secondly, health is so subjective it’s literally impossible for doctors to give exact ranges of time. Like, if you have any specific strain of influenza (the flu) you might be sick for 3 days or you might be sick for 9 days, your doctor has no way of knowing. Plus your doctor can’t even tell which of the several strains you have, or even for sure IF you HAVE influenza and not one of the other thousand reasons you could have a fever and not feel well. Like, your doctor could find out, but it would be expensive, and a waste of time and resources, when no matter what the lab finds, the treatment is 99.999% of the time going to be stay home and rest and drink water. There is literally no way to give an exact and accurate time to your employer, and nothing your doctor can do to help you.

Lastly, by making your doctor their little enforcer, the employer is treating the doctor like some kind of junior high hall monitor, instead of a highly trained professional with better things to spend their time on. 

My father used to get so mad at the whole situation that he would offer a note for unlimited time, just, whatever date you wanted. Like, oh, those employers think it’s more likely you’ll lie to them than me? After they treat me like their little bitch, waste my time, and endanger my patients!? HAHAHAHA fuck them and fuck that – you want six months off? A year? Whatever you want and can afford my friend, fuck your boss, I hate him for sending you here.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

Seriously do they think doctors can always tell whether you’re sick? There’s no way to tell whether I had a migraine yesterday or am just really hungover. And I’d definitely recover better of I didn’t have to spend the first two hours of the morning in a doctor’s office

[tvmusiclife]

Georgia & Pennsylvania doing THAT

[strawberrycade-deactivated20210]

the fact that when insulin was discovered in 1921 it only cost $1 dollar makes me cry. bc like. it costs $300 now. god why. back in 1996, humalog, the insulin i take every day, only cost $21 for a month's supply. fuck.

[toofemmetofunction]

[dailybetes]

I'm not unhappy, I'm just low. It's not the new place, I'm just low. It's not my situation, I'm just low. I don't want to eat, I'm just low. My body does fit me, but I'm low. I don't _________, I'm just low. Eat, repeat.

[umbreeonic]

[anime--irl]

Anime_irl

[vodka-zamolodchikova]

me: [accidentally closes a chrome window with 50+ tabs]

my laptop, gently weeping: oh my god………… oh ym hgod thank you so much……….. thank y

[jerryterry]

Me, realizing my mistake, reopening Chrome and preparing to mash ctrl+shift+T to bring them all back one by one:

My computer:

[bezosbaldhead-deactivated202007]

my computer watching me click the “Restore” option for all of my tabs after shutting down unnaturally:

[killin-the-machine]

You should all be detained ASAP

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Okay, so Lantus burns so much because:

a. It’s a usually much larger dose of insulin than any of our fast-acting doses, which I guess is kind of intuitive.

And

b. It has a ph of FREAKING 4!!!!!!! Our blood is neutralish, around 7.

So yeah. Why does no one tell us this.

[naturessimplicity18]

I just had to post these, they gave me a laugh 😂

[suspend]

[sss]

[diabutch]

lmao your pancreas can produce insulin? that's kinda cringe bro

[diabeticgf]

tfw your pump starts screaming at you at four o’clock in the morning for you to change it and it will not silence itself till you get up and fix it

[diabets]

diabetes? more like i know a lot about carbohydrates and sugar but i’m not keto but i’m also a needle user but i’m not a drug user (lies) but i can play the floor is lava with my physical health