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Spotted in the Turning Red trailer!!

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#JustIn: MAJOR national victory today as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act, including the most sweeping nationwide measure to date to limit out-of-pocket co-pays for insulin. The national co-pay cap we’ve heavily advocated would apply to Medicare beneficiaries, individuals on commercial insurance, and those covered by other group health plans.

The House-passed legislation creates an out-of-pocket co-pay limit of $35 per month for insulin. Learn more here:

https://bit.ly/3CskKXu #MakeInsulinAffordable

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Happy 🌎 Diabetes Day!

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reblog the blue circle for world diabetes day!

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On September 6th 1876, the Scottish physician and physiologist John James Macleod was born near Dunkeld.

J J Macleod is arguably the most famous Scot you will hear about today that you never knew before, he was instrumental in discovering a drug that has saved countless lives while working  at the University of Toronto in 1921, for which he shared a Nobel Prize for  Medicine. 

He was the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod. When later the family moved to Aberdeen, Macleod went to the Grammar School there and later entered the Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen to study medicine.

In 1898 he took his medical degree with honours and was awarded the Anderson Travelling Fellowship, which enabled him to work for a year at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Leipzig.

He was noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin and given the Nobel Medal for this discovery. Macleod’s main work was on carbohydrate metabolism and his efforts with Frederick Banting and Charles Best in the discovery of insulin used to treat diabetes. For this Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923. Macleod was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin in 1921 which he shared with James B Collip.

A plaque in his honour, as seen in pic two, can be found at  32, Cairn Road, Bieldside Aberdeen. 

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Diabetes burnout still happens when you have life saving technology. Because technology is not a cure.

They've done all this shit to make taking insulin & knowing your blood sugar easier, but they still don't know how to hack motivation. And that's what is missing from Healthcare.

There's still so much motivation, attention and engery needed to keep yourself feeling good. Not just alive.

Telling me continuously about what I'm not doing vs. What I should be doing isn't doing anything anymore.

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Pros of going to local businesses:

interesting food

feels more personal than chain restaurants

supporting small businesses

Cons of going to local businesses:

what the HECK is the carb count

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Love how endocrinologists and nurses say, “bring your meter [to the next appointment]” as though I wouldn’t bring it with me if they didn’t say it

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THIS THIS THIS

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a concept: rose gold insulin pump

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Happy 🌎 Diabetes Day!

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Happy World Diabetes Day!

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