#getting people's blood sugar

[inniave]

Section 504 is under threat.

If you don't know, Section 504 says you can’t discriminate against disabled people if you get federal funding. This includes schools and hospitals; it covers situations such as ASL interpreters for deaf people in hospitals, letting students with type one diabetes receive insulin in schools, wheelchair accessibility, accommodations, and much more.

17 states are suing to completely overturn Section 504. Those states are: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. If Section 504 is overturned, the effects would be devastating.

If you live in one of those states, please contact your attorney general and tell them to drop the suit immediately. You can find the contact information for your AG & an example letter at the link below:

[arionaleilani]

can ppl stop name dropping ozempic in reference to weight loss when it’s literally a diabetic medication meant to help make managing blood sugar levels easier. i am so sick of hearing ozempic be so casually connected to weight loss. non diabetics who use ozempic are improperly using diabetic medications. don’t make diabetic medications become fucking brand names for weight loss when diabetics of all types already have a hard time being taken seriously in the face of jokes about obesity and sugar

[thistransient]

The guesthouse auntie told me to take the bus from Ernakulam but did I listen, nooo

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Another weird question for you: How long do you have to fast for a blood sugar reading to count as a fasting blood sugar measurement? Also, does drinking soda (like, full sugar soda) slowly over the time before the blood test count as not-fasting? Asking because I keep testing* in the fasting blood sugar range when I am pretty sure I am not supposed to. Like, two hours after eating a meal when I've been slowly drinking soda the whole intervening time, or half an hour after drinking a whole full-sugar gatorade *with the home blood sugar test thing, not like doctor's office tests. though I test in the fasting range there too? I do know the word for the tester thing but I am brain fogged at the moment

[oldmanpusspuss]

They were so desperate at my assisted living job that they were like fine come work even though you have restrictions just don't do any heavy lifting. So I worked a morning shift and just like gave residents their meds and got vitals and easy stuff like that lol

[egginfroggin]

Had a bit of a bad spot today

Doodled a little Greg when I felt better

Here's a little Greg for you if you're feeling down

Please hang in there <3

(program: krita; time: like 15 minutes)

[aithne]

Y'all, buying a house is stressful.

[mojo-bro-tho]

Yo wtf I’m gonna shit my pants-

We were at like 850 last time I paid attention djwjdjwodhiwfhwoodw

Crying, screaming, throwing up

[goldentangerines]

story time of something that happened three hours ago: so i'm on vacation in the beautiful city of prague with my best friend and we went to dinner at this nice czech place and i had delicious rabbit leg with spinach and garlic confit. cue inmediate, extreme liver pain, just excrutiating stabby pain in my liver, just as we finished eating. i said i needed to go to the toilet (with the intention of regretfully puking up the rabbit to make it better bc this is sadly not the first time i felt this kind of pain) and then i don't remember anything at all up to the moment (apparently a minute later) when i awoke after i collapsed in the middle of this fancy bougie czech restaurant in the middle of the beautiful city of prague, and hit my head on a bar stool. two waitresses held my legs up while my friend put the rest of me in recovery position, one put a towel under my head, and a really kind guy who had sat at the table beside us brought me some sugary coke drink and a wet towel, petted my shoulder, tried his best german for us, and called an ambulance for me since neither my friend nor i would've been able to communicate with the emergency hotline, not accounting for the shock and current indisposition. ambulance arrives and i'm still laying on the floor there btw. and there are approximately 70 seated people in this beautiful czech restaurant in prague just eating their delicious meals and looking kind of curiously so the background noise adds to the experience of me staring up at a very cutely decorated restaurant ceiling while a really big, tatted, pierced, bearded, kind man pats my shoulder asking me if i need anything and calms my friend who was very quick-witted and only mildly panicked through it all. anyways i was fine and went back after a quick check-through (czech-through) and wanted to settle this guy's and his accompaniment's bill as thanks for the kindness but they had already paid it :( he came back out while i was treated and asked if i was fine and when i said yeah he left, and he and the guy he was with (equally big, tatted, pierced, bearded) held hands and kissed while going down the busy street in the beautiful city of prague and i was so touched by it all i cried. and then i said to the paramedics, and i quote: "thank you and sorry i bothered you at work" and they immediately wanted to take me to the hospital, which, fair. anyways. that happened and all the people were very kind and even refused my extra tip for the nice staff :(

[naamahdarling]

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[doctor-disc0]

Me googling "low blood sugar" only to find out that it is NOT common or normal for non-diabetic people to experience. I experience it somewhat frequently.

[shabbyshoebox]

Me, having a hot flash, anxious, can't sleep: "They Are Watching Me Through The Windows. They Are Following Me From The Outside, Walking From Window To Window As I Go From Room To Room. I Know That It's Not Happening And Everything Is Fine Supposedly But I Am FEELING WATCHED!"

Me, two minutes after finally eating something with sugar in it: "Wow that was embarrassing, that's just a backyard out there. Smh."

[savage-rhi]

*insert pink color here*

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question time, but let me preface it by saying these are not symptoms I am currently experiencing and also I have talked to doctors about this, I just didn't think to put the two things together For all the migraine havers out there, do you have tachycardia when you have migraines? Either like during the whole migraine, or only with migraines bad enough to cause stomach issues?

[littleflorablr]

So how do we accommodate for tinies who need ongoing medications? The ones with depression or diabetes, the trans ones, the ones with heart conditions...

In a world where tinies and bigs have openly coexisted for a while, it's reasonable to suppose that the dosages (and formulas, perhaps) have been worked out and can be obtained. But what if it's not that? If someone just shrinks one day, what happens then? Assuming they don't magically get their bodies fixed in the process... do they have to deal with suddenly going off of all their medications, in addition to the conditions they were to treat in the first place? Do they chip off pieces of pills and hope that it's pretty close to the right amount? What about insulin and other injected medications - nobody makes needles any but the biggest tinies can conveniently use, and they'd have the same dosage issues...

[puppydog-princess]

Be a good puppy and eat your food - puts it in a bowl on the floor- and feel better

wahhhhhhhhhhhhh it's not my fault i've just been busyyyyyyy 😖

i finally got the shit done i needed to and now im sitting in the park eating. it's a bit chillier than id like but it beats eating in my office or in my car 😔✊🏻 (my coworker is having a meeting in our breakroom so i had to go somewhere else)

can i have puppy snuggles after i eat 🥺 i promise ill hug you and nuzzle you and give you lots of puppy kisses 🥺