Mine: I was at a really small restaurant and I kept hearing my pump beeping. I kept looking at it but it wasn’t giving me any messages so I was pretty confused for a good ten minutes. Then I looked over and this guy had the same pump and I realized I was hearing his the whole time. I took mine out and waived it over at him and had a good laugh. :D
So today I had a meeting with my boss's boss. She is new to the team and wanted to meet everyone one on one. You ever get those low blood sugars where you don't recognize it? Well I certainly do. The meeting was thirty minutes long, and I don't think I made one sensical complete sentence. I have to give her a ton of credit though - managing to stay engaged talking to someone who doesn't even know his own name (yes, I seem to recall a point where I tried to introduce myself, and it went a little something like "hi! I'm uh.... Uhhh.... Uh..... Hello.").
Going to message her tomorrow explaining the situation and maybe have a redo, but all I can do whenever I think about how embarrassing that whole interaction was is to postfix it with the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
For those that are worried, I had the low blood sugar ravenous hunger after the meeting and ate enough to be a functioning member of society again.
What are some of your cringe-worthy low blood sugar interactions with other humans?
Mine was when I was 10 or something like that, and I was getting a new pump site in, and it must have hit a vessel or something. So it started bleeding through the tube. But that had never happened, so I started screaming “ITS SUCKING THE BLOOD OUT OF ME AAAAA”. Traumatic at the time but funny now.
Just a lighthearted post that came to my mind, when I was trying to put the needle back into the cork. I felt like a drunk man trying to put a key into a lock.
>"Yeah. [Stab] Almost. [Stab] A little bit to the left. [Stab] Too much now. To the right, just a tad... [Stab] Ouch, that was my finger. [Stab] Come on, come on. [Stab] [Stab] [Stab] Ah, fuck it. The needle is ruined by now."
What other stuff in the life of a diabetic can you make fun of?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I make jokes about diabetes all the time. One difference between them and what I see on the internet, is that they're true. When I see jokes like "John at 35 candy bars, what does John have? Diabetes" make me so irritated. I get that not everyone feels that way, but I have some reasons why I do.
1.People always trying to monitor my eating for me.
I get a lot of "can you eat that" and "isn't that bad for you" and some straight out "You can't eat that!" I'm under no illusion that stopping jokes would stop that, but I think it would help stop promoting false information. Eating sugar won't kill me, in fact, not eating sugar will kill me. It's a fact of life that everyone needs sugar to survive, do you want me to die?
2."Why aren't you fat?"
Not only does it promote the idea that sugar is bad for diabetics, it also doesn't differentiate between types. Statistically there are more overweight individuals who are type 2, but even then you aren't necessarily overweight. Type 2 is the one linked (read linked) with sugar, but I'll get to that later. Type 1 (although neither have a definite cause yet) is not, it's theorized that it's hereditary and is triggered by unknown environmental stimuli.
3.Sugar vs. Fat
The idea that sugar causes diabetes, type 1 or 2, is wrong. There is a definite correlation between fat and type 2, but eating a bucket of sugar isn't going to send you to the hospital for diabetes. It is, however going to send you to the hospital for other reasons. Even if you keep an unhealthy diet from the day you're born until you die, even if you weigh over 300, there is no guarantee you'll get type 2. It's supposed to be a mix of age, genetics, amount of fat, environment, and ethnicity. A sugary cake isn't "A recipe for diabetes" it's "A recipe for a stomach ache"
There are more things I could say than that, but I have a feeling I've lost half of your attention already.
Most of the actually funny jokes I've seen about diabetes have been within the diabetes community. Many are memes like; "I'm not always kept up all night by diabetes, but when I am I have to be up early the next day." Short, funny, relatable. Wouldn't spread too far outside of the community.
I think it'd be a good idea for those of us who might agree with me, to come up with some new and less harmful jokes that could be used outside the community.
I don't know, just an idea.
tl;dr Sugar = Diabetes jokes aren't funny, what are som
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GF recently started part of her internship at a clinic that treats it and I'm lookin for some good jokes to really lay on the diabetes for her.
So I had a kinda funny thing happen to me the other day and thought it could be fun to swap some random diabetes stories.
So the other day, I had my insulin pen clipped on my pocket (with the pen on the inside of my pocket) and went to take my wallet out and it popped the cap off the pen. Of course this has happened before so I didn't think anything of it, but when I went to pop the cap back on I noticed that not only did it yank the cap off the pen needle, but it somehow ripped the actual metal needle part out of the plastic as well. So I was just like, well, shit, I guess I'm not eatting until I get home (I was only going to be out for a few hours so I wasn't too worried about it). Then I go to look at my wallet, AND SEE THE NEEDLE STICKING OUT JUST UNDER THE JOINT OF MY THUMB! A good 1/4 of the needle ended up going through my skin. Still have no idea how it happened or how I didn't feel it. It was just kinda like, huh, well that's a new one!
I'm sure it's the same for some other illnesses too.
I'm currently low, this makes sense at the moment!
