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My mom became one of those ignorant people about diabetes

when she said that soda gave me diabetes.

Mom, you were at all the classes, all the appointments.

You should know by now that I didn’t get diabetes from soda.

I think she’s more concerned that she doesn’t want me to gain too much weight. She prefers the thin body type for her daughter I guess.

The people who say there is a cure for diabetes

are not even diabetic.

Why don’t you actually do some research and get your ignorant head out of your ass?

And if you ever joke about it, why don’t you fucking put yourself in ours shoes. The minimum of testing your blood 4 times a day, 5 shots a day unless you are on the pump, 3 am hypoglycemic levels, blindness, numbness, shakiness, confusion, amputation, bruising.

Unless you go through this on a daily basis, don’t you dare fucking make jokes about diabetes, or tell me to stop complaining. Because in case you haven’t figured it out, we have this for life, because there is no cure. Insulin is not a cure. It’s a treatment. Without it, we’re dead. With it, there’s still a chance for complications. No diet will make it reversible. Exercise is great, but for type 1, you just lessen the chance for complications. Diabetes doesn’t go away. It’s a chronic condition.

And unless you have a pancreas that’s not working, don’t act like you know everything about the disease. Oh, and just because you have a relative that has diabetes, but you don’t have it yourself, don’t say you know everything. It just makes you look ignorant.

And tagging food with diabetes? Really? -.- I can’t help but think people are trolling. Chocolate cake doesn’t give you diabetes. Being fat doesn’t mean you have diabetes.

I was 14 when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, 85 pounds, until I dropped to 70 pounds since I wasn’t receiving insulin. I was underweight, no, I am still underweight. That just proves you don’t have to be overweight to be diabetic.

And telling people that well if they ate healthier, they wouldn’t be diabetic. -.-

Just stop. Please. You’re making yourself look pathetic with your lack of knowledge and compassion towards those who suffer the chronic disease.

Rant over

I took out my infusion set, but being the lazy diabetic I am, left it in there for 5 days instead of 3, but changed the reservoir twice. Now I have a lump the size of a dime underneath my skin in the place where the cannula was, and it hurts. And it was hurting before I took the pump off, but owww…..

My blood sugars were so perfect, until today when I was 264.

Stupid sickness. Runny nose, headache, hives, sore throat, cough, fever….