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I wasn't even worth a message

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The fact that insulin is the reason I can’t lose weight fast makes me maddd

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I was doing so well for so long but it was so hard to just keep going on, day after day, it felt like I was going to break soon, then something traumatic happened (my bf made an attempt while intoxicated) and my mood got all unbalanced, I had a 4 day long manic episode, didn't eat the whole time (~70 hours), essentially relapsing into ED, ran out of insulin in my pump and my sensor expired and because I wasn't eating I didn't bother changing those, ended up crashing into a depressive episode, realized I'm actually sewerslidal, had a whole mental breakdown and relapsed into SH, got psychotic episodes, took meds, had an episode with vivid hallucinations and for most of it I thought it was all real, stayed at home for a month, not seeing anyone, got so sick from not doing insulin for a month that one night I just started violently throwing up and now I'm "trying to get better" at least to balance my body out a bit before I fully get back on my shit. I'm planning on restricting again for as long as I do insulin, and eventually I'll probably stop doing some for a while again. I lost like 4kg this month. Seems like nobody noticed, or they just don't want to bring it up. I know they wouldn't want to bring it up because they know it's bad for me, and tbh I'm at a healthy weight so it's not an issue, but I want to get so thin that they have to come up to me and tell me "yo dude, you don't look okay, you've lost so much weight and it's worrying" and I'll just play it off like everything else, mostly because it won't be a big deal in my head, until either being underweight or ketoacidosis gets me hospitalized (probably the latter cause let's be honest, I've only been a normal weight for 2 years out of 21)

So that's my recap for the time I was gone, not that anyone reads these, but I guess I do, as like a little diary ig...

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Going thru old fics i saved and damn Bamsara sure love yearning and slow burn. Not scenes from their fics btw, i just felt like drawing these 2

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“I think what he doesn’t understand is, I don’t need him. I want him. Or I wanted him. If I had a choice I’d do it all over again. Because even though there was hardships, arguments, & toxicity. There were beautiful, joyous, intimate moments. Moments I wouldn’t share with anybody else. Moments that I will always keep in my heart. He was definitely one of my greatest loves in life. I’ll always treasure that. And as the days pass, as the weeks pass, and I’m sure as the months pass. The more I process this, the more I realize I’m not sad because I miss him exactly. I’m sad because I miss those moments that will never happen again. When I think about the memories, my heart breaks all over again.”

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Can I talk about how EXHAUSTING it is to be diabetic? The constant blood sugar changes the insulin injections, the supplies costs, the anxiety, the anger, the gas, the constipation, the late nights, the shakes, the aches, the, the dehydration, depression, the isolation, the EVERYTHING. It's been five years of this and I'm so over it.

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I'm not too sure how many diabetics we got in Fandom, but I can't stop thinking about Shadow being similar to those diabetic alert dogs.

Shadow's whole thing was being a cure for Maria, but we know that he was also her emotional support and physical support around the ARK, so the idea's been stuck in my head of him being really supportive/helpful of your disability. I just have T1D so that's the focus here ^_^

Shadow sensing your blood sugar dropping or going too high before even you do, and pushing you to check your blood sugar for yourself. Or grabbing you a snack—a juice, if needed. He's pretty attached at your hip, and might often wake you in the middle of the night to let you know you need more insulin.

But also Shadow being a caring, attentive partner. You don't feel like refilling your pump because it's too early in the morning? He'll do it for you and he will be gentle as possible when laying on a new injection site. He always helps you replace your sensors, especially if you use the one that's supposed to go only on the back of your arm. Keeps you on a schedule, etc etc.. he's happy to fulfill this type of role again, I think.

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Reminder that if you tell a disabled or chronically ill person you would rather kill yourself than go deal with what we do on a daily basis, you are literally saying you don’t see our lives as worth living.

I don’t care if you’re being dramatic or exaggerating, or if you’d actually follow through with it (please don’t) if you become disabled someday.

Our lives are already hard enough; we don’t need to hear that you think our existence is a fate worse than death on top of everything else.

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EVIL AUTISM POST!!!

Projecting my disabilities onto my fixated characters because I love making my favorite characters awesome YAAAAWAAHAGAA!!! I always wondered how Tord being T1D like me would be like. :-) evil guy with his funny machine thing.

I don’t usually see a lot of diabetic representation art, so I thought it would’ve been cool to try this out, being a type 1 diabetic myself! I will say it is SUPERR difficult finding diabetic rep in art, and it’d be really cool to find more. :-]

I’ve had T1D for almost a decade now, and it means my body can’t really make insulin to control my blood sugar whenever I eat food. As a result, I have to rely on an automatic, artificial insulin pump, and an automatic blood sugar checker.

SOMETIMES it’s annoying to have to change to pump every 3 days, and the blood sugar checker every 10 days, but I’ve gotten used to it HAGAH!! Sometimes I forget I have diabetes because of it LOL.

Dealing with constant alerts whenever my blood sugar goes wrong can be annoyingg as hell and I have to stay up sometimes because of it. I can imagine how aggravated Tord can get from it HWLEDK! It’s usually for low blood sugars though. Whenever I get low blood sugars, I take it as an excuse to eat all the candy I want HAGAHHAAA

So just imagining Tord having it is pretty fuckin cool, especially since I don’t know much characters who do have it, or headcanons of it. I see him working with robots and mechanics too, I wonder if he configures his own insulin pumps.

I love talking about cool ass shit that I know a lot about HAVSHHE if anyone’s curious about anything else T1D-related, ask away! Will take a bit to answer, but I don’t mind giving a bit more insight into it. :-)

ALSO Tord has been OBSESSED with My Sharona. This guy really badly wants to make a drum cover of this song and I’m being deadass this is probably going all the way at the top of his On Repeat.

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So sad about the United Health CEO :( has he tried yoga?

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"A 25-year-old woman in China is the first person worldwide to have type 1 diabetes reversed through stem cell therapy.

The therapy used the patient’s own cells to create personalized stem cells, which were then used to grow fresh insulin-producing islets.

This breakthrough offers hope for millions with diabetes, potentially eliminating the need for daily insulin injections and reducing complications.

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, a 25-year-old woman in Tianjin, China, has had her type 1 diabetes reversed through a novel stem cell therapy. This marks the first time such a feat has been accomplished globally, offering new hope for millions living with the chronic condition.

The patient, who had been struggling with type 1 diabetes, underwent a pioneering treatment that involved converting her own cells into personalized stem cells. These stem cells were then used to grow fresh clusters of ‘islets,’ the hormone-producing cells in the pancreas responsible for regulating blood sugar levels.

As Nature reports, this therapy’s unique approach of transplanting the newly created islets into the patient’s upper abdomen near her pancreas sets it apart from previous islet transplant methods. This strategic placement allows for easier monitoring via MRI, a significant advantage over traditional liver transplants.

“I can eat sugar now,” the woman said on a call with Nature. After over a year since the transplant, she says, “I enjoy eating everything — especially hotpot.” The woman asked to remain anonymous for privacy reasons.

Experts are astonished at the results, according to Timesnownews. “They’ve completely reversed diabetes in the patient, who was requiring substantial amounts of insulin beforehand,” said Dr. James Shapiro, a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

The implications of this breakthrough are far-reaching, as it could potentially revolutionize the way we treat diabetes. By using a patient’s own cells to create personalized stem cells, this therapy bypasses the limitations of donor islet shortages and the need for immunosuppressive drugs, which have hindered the success of conventional transplant methods.

‘If this is applicable to other patients, it’s going to be wonderful,’ diabetes researcher Daisuke Yabe of Japan’s Kyoto University told reporters via Daily Mail.

As the world watches closely, the success of this case sparks hope for the millions of individuals living with type 1 diabetes. It represents a significant step forward in regenerative medicine and paves the way for further research and development in the field."

-via Gadget Review, September 30, 2024

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It’s just intentional at this point

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03/16/2011 oslo spektrum oslo norway - rebecca johansen touzet

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