I Got the 'Beetus

Whenever I Pick Up a Package From My School’s Mailroom

halitohannah:

I am so distracted.

theunfathomable:

I don’t know if I just took 21 units of my Lantus or Humalog.

If it’s the latter, I am so majorly screwed right now.

Diabetic for 10+ years and I still mess up -_____-‘

 Oh my god that’s the scariest thing ever. I do that all the time and it never ceases to freak me out. I really hope that it was the Lantus!

“It is thought that people diagnosed with diabetes before the age of 30 will lose more than ten years of life expectancy.”

jesuisharry:

Although there is a lady who goes to my endo who is celebrating her 75th diabetic anniversary this year, so there’s a bit of inspiration to look after myself. Still rather shit though. Now I feel like I have to pack so much more into my life while I still have the time. 

75 years of diabetes?! And here I am only expecting to live to about sixty or so…I have renewed hope in my lifespan.

Now I have to track down my list of funny diabetus stories….

donnapirana:

One I don’t think I’ve told here is about the time my blood sugar was so low in the night that my parents had to come over to my apartment. They kept trying to feed me but I was being belligerent and trying to sleep. So my roommates say that my dad was throwing Goldfish at me and yelling “Eat the fucking Goldfish, Donna!” and I would throw them back at him and scream “FUCK YOU!” Which, you know, was not something I’d normally say to my parents…

I am impressed. 

When I was in fourth grade, a girl in my class didn’t want to participate in a certain activity while we were in class. She was making a big fuss out of not wanting to participate and pulling up every excuse she could think of, and then she got to “My blood sugar’s low so I can’t do it!” I called her out on it and said “That’s not funny. That’s serious stuff.” The teacher later made her write an apology to me, but I don’t think I ever really fully forgave her for it. Knowing that a kid thought that my health was something to joke about still makes me angry (and it’s been over a decade).

Omnipod System

diabeticthings:

Hey! My name is Sydney, and I’m a senior in high school. This is my two cents about the omnipod system.

I switched over to the omnipod a little over a week ago,  and I LOVE IT. Honestly. I really do. (:

I was on a “traditional” pump for four years before this, and I was fairly happy with it. But I love the omnipod. It gives me so much more freedom because there is no tubing!

Now, keep in mind, no system is perfect. No system is going to be exactly a pancreas. Its impossible at this time, with our current technology, for that to happen.

Every system has its flaws. I had problems with the pump I used before, and there are some problems with the omnipod system:

• The pods can “fail” because of internal errors.
• The pods can not activate because of internal errors
• There can be communication errors between the pod and the PDM (personal diabetes manager)

With all of these errors, you have to remove the pod and put a new one on. This can lead to insulin waste, and pod waste. However, you can take the insulin out of the pod, but you’ll need to talk to your endo or omnipod trainer about that.

There is no good comparison of size for the omnipod. Its smaller than the one touch ultra 2 that I own, and fits in the palm of my hand. Here are a couple of good photos (not my photos) for size comparison:

I would recommend you going to omnipod’s website and ordering a sample pod! You can wear it on a normal pump spot and decide if you like it, and see exactly how big it is. (:

I love the omnipod. Even with the errors, I love it. I feel like a person, not a Diabetic person with a pump.

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Thank you so much!

~ Hannah F.

This is great! Thank you! I’ve been curious about the omnipod—I’ve only ever met one person on it so I know next to nothing about it.

Every reblog or like I get on this will be a dollar I’ll try to raise for the JDRF Walk on November 19th.

ashanizer:

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