#bantingsghost

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"I feel like you can't really say it gets better, because it doesn't. I always thought I'd never reach that mental block where you're just like, 'I'm sick of this and I don't want to check my blood sugar and I don't want to inject myself'. I was the most diligent diabetic for the first three years. Recently I hit that block. I literally just had a mental breakdown because my stomach was hurting and I was hungry and I just wanted to eat. I had to check my blood sugar and take insulin because my sugar was high. Then I have to wait. I just wanted to f*cking eat. I started tearing up right there at school. I didn't want to do it anymore. But I have to." #bantingsGhost #type1diabetes #documentary #fujifeed #fuji #x100f #climbing

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@on_dresss getting after it on the rock. For both of us, the challenges of #type1diabetes are best met with a creative focus on something bigger and more valuable. Our discussion of the pricing of survival (insulin) was a lot darker and definitely gave me new appreciation for the will to keep on going. I'm hoping this #BantingsGhost project will not only draw attention to the insulin access crisis but will also build community around the ways we see people respond under pressure. #climbing #weshootmirrorless #fuji #x100f #getoutstayout

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"It's not even something that's visible. Cancer's not technically visible but you can lose your hair, lose a lot of weight. But you look at me you wouldn't think, Oh that guy's sick. He's climbing mountains, swimming in the ocean. He doesn't have a handicap, you know? It's sad. Diabetes has just been turned into a joke. It's not about the people who are actually suffering with it. It's a joke." #bantingsghost #documentary

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"I don't know if I should say this but cancer patients, essentially you go on chemo or whatever and there's gonna be one of two outcomes. You go into remission or you die. There's a possibility that you can get cancer again if you go into remission but it goes away for a while. Diabetes doesn't go away for a while. No matter what you're always going to need insulin. Right now I'm working 36 hours a week managing a climbing gym. They do not provide insurance." #bantingsghost #documentaryphotography #diabetes #fujifilm_xseries

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“I should have access to the insulin I need to survive so I don’t have to get to that point–so I don’t potentially end up in the hospital. So my family doesn’t walk into my room the next day to find a dead body. It legitimately scares me. It doesn’t just scare me it scares my significant other. And my parents too.” #bantingsghost #documentaryphotography

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"It's pretty dramatic. My brother has casually gone through school. He's five years older than I am so he's taking his sweet time. He's 28 and he's already been off my parents insurance for three years. I still have a few more years on there but I'm like, 'what am I going to do when I don't have that insurance any more?' I'm not able to buy insulin out of pocket. Not even in Mexico, which is just an hour south of here." #bantingsghost #insulin4all #diabetes #type1diabetes #t1dlookslikeme

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"I wanted to get into music theory...getting good enough to the point where I could be a studio musician. I thought about that because it pays pretty well but it's competitive and if I don't make it then I don't have insurance. If I don't have insurance I don't have insulin. If I don't have insulin, then...I'm dead, so yeah." #bantingsghost #type1diabetes #ndam #diabetes

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"I've had this box since I was diagnosed in 2012. March. Lots of syringes and pen caps, we just dumped them all in there. I think we did the math once. This represents thousands and thousands of dollars." #BantingsGhost documentary project. This is #diabetes. (Link in my bio)