[dancingbirdjane]

Me: Why am I so tired???

Also me: *has multiple chronic illnesses, multiple mental disorders, stretches myself to the max, only gets about 4-5 hours of sleep per night*

Me: There's literally no reason for me to be this tired

[whoneedsapancreasanyway]

I’m kept alive by a synthetic liquid.

By the laws of nature I should be dead.

So… that’s fun to think about

[demiboydemon]

“Don’t let your disability define you.”

You know what? My disabilities do define me at the moment. They decide what I can and can’t do, where I go, what I eat...

It’s okay if your disabilities define you sometimes.

[gemofthegalaxy]

People only know what type one diabetes is through Steel Magnolias and it shows

[lochnessies]

me, half asleep, at 3am trying to stay awake and bring up my blood sugar so i don’t die:

[dandelionwyn-o]

Goin’ Low

[dandelionwyn-o]

Me with low blood sugar tryna make it to my glucose tabs.

[naturallysweetcyborg]

I hate trying to open a new bottle when I’m low. It’s hard enough when I am fully functional!

[beautyandthebetes]

If this ain’t me

[naturallysweetcyborg]

I do like to bolus well ahead of time when something really sweet is involved. Don’t usually start eating until my BG starts to drop. So this is pretty accurate for me too!

[naturallysweetcyborg]

Changing my pump set in the bathroom at Red Lobster and some random woman comes up and tells me to get gastric bypass. Apparently her friend had it, lost a ton of weight and now her diabetes is cured!

Um… I’m not exactly an overweight person, and most of my scale lbs are from muscle. But thank you for making me feel crappy about myself random lady that kind of needs to eat a salad herself (snarkiness caused from her rudeness. I feel it’s justified when someone that’s 300lbs tells my 140lb self to lose weight to cure my autoimmune disorder.)

I was so shocked all I could do was smile and say “that’s not how this diabetes works.”

[chronically-sweet-deactivated20]

bc only cool kidz wear internal organs externally

[chronically-sweet-deactivated20]

when ur a normal person and an animal lays on u and falls asleep: ive been chosen

when a diabetic is in the same situation and their sugars are dropping: i am willing to die here

[typeoneprincess]

I hate when your calibrate your Dexcom and like it was saying you were in range but you’re high or low. And then like 10 seconds after you do that the annoying alarm goes off telling you that you’re high/low and it’s like... I KNOW that...I just told YOU THAT. Don’t act like you came up with this info on your own. 🙄🙄

[liv-abetic]

Me: *while low* I want to get up and walk somewhere. Surely I can manage that!

Me: *trips over one (1) stair*

Me: I am a menace to society. Save me from myself.

[graveltoglucose]

having low blood sugar takes “treat yo self” to a whole new level

[dandelionwyn-o]

[justsomeantifas]

Insulin Should be Free and Accessible to Every Diabetic.

[diabeticallyhere]

Me: okay so my number is 63. So I should eat 1 fruit snack.

Me: ….at least.

Me: I think technically my numbers are supposed to be above 90 before I go back to sleep, so…. 2 fruit snacks?

Me: I should probably eat 1.5 fruit snacks.

Me: but then I just have ½ fruit snack left, and that’s gross.

Me: or I could eat 2 fruit snacks but treat half of one. ….no, that defeats the purpose of eating the other half of one.

Me: k so I’m eating 2 fruit snacks, and it’ll work out great. Either that, or my number will be 260-270 when I wake up.

*eats 2 fruit snacks and immediately goes back to sleep*

5 ½ hours later: *number is 267*

[dandelionwyn-o]

The most relatable thing I have ever read.

[thediabetesheroes]