Comments on: Diabetes April Fool’s: Send Us Your Funnies and Win!

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Forum Filter: Living with Diabetes « Medliorate — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:49:33 +0000

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By: Suzy Smith

Suzy Smith — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:46:22 +0000

“We don?t have the freedom to think that this disease is nothing more than an appendage, just something acquired through years of bad diet and unhealthy living; a punishment like the Scarlet Letter that you can sew onto the outside of your clothes.”

“We are not, you see, as easily manipulate as the Type 2s, who are generally willing to accept any flim-flam spewing from an Educator?s mouth.”

Direct quotes from the blog of Haidee Merritt http://blog.haideemerritt.com/?p=80

Somehow I don’t see me buying a book that insults type 2 diabetics. That’s a damn shame that she sees those of us with type 2 as easily manipulated, or as the cause for our diabetes.

By: Victor Shudin

Victor Shudin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:54:51 +0000

You find a cause of your diabetes in this site.
Best wishes!
Victor

By: pamela

pamela — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:30:36 +0000

OK, I thought of one: back when I first got my pump (1997), I was also taking bellydancing lessons (that’s right: bellydancing!). I had been having upper body problems (weakened arms, repetitive strain), and thought bellydancing would help me strengthen my lower body (plus I live in a city where it’s an accepted form of dance/exercise).

Anway, there was a woman staring at me in class one time. And she kept smiling and smiling, too. I was thinking, maybe she knows someone with a pump… maybe she has Type 1… maybe she sympathizes with my illness and how weird it is to have my tummy exposed with my infusion site showing…. Finally she comes up to me after class and says, “I just wanted to say how cool you look, bellydancing with your pager on your hip!” — she didn’t even SEE the tubing or the white ovular patch of my infusion site – (I just smiled and didn’t say a word!) Ha! Take that, diabetes!

By: pamela

pamela — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:52:38 +0000

I go with the white spots. Thanks for all the laughs!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:31:05 +0000

Wow. I would be FURIOUS if anyone referred to me as a junkie or mistook me for one. If a family member said something like that to me, it’s be the last conversation we had for a long time.

I love Haidee’s comics though.

By: kdroberts

kdroberts — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:48:52 +0000

I like a good joke and since it’s April fools day I figured I’d think up something to post on a message board. I was thinking at work and got a little side tracked so it was lunch time by the time I had it figured out. I thought it was great. I posted on a diabetes board that I had bee reading some website about drug trials and early research and had come across a company that was researching a new diabetes treatment that was made from an enzyme they found in sugar cane root that would make cells more sensitive to insulin. I thought it was great, just enough vague science to seem plausible and quirky enough that it might just be true – a treatment for diabetes made from the very thing that we have problems with. Unfortunately the first reply stopped my sniggering. It was a post referencing an article about different sugars and how some had the potential to inhibit an enzyme related to type 2 diabetes!

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/115124.php

“Depending on their origin and grade of refining, many sweeteners contained significant amounts of antioxidants, which have the potential to control diabetes-linked high blood pressure and heart disease,” says Shetty, who adds that these were in vitro laboratory studies performed outside of living organisms. “Several types of sweeteners also showed an interesting potential to inhibit the action of a key enzyme related to Type 2 diabetes, which is also the target of drugs used to treat this condition.”

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:27:31 +0000

“Mosquitoes love you …” always thought that there was a reason that I got more bites than my friends, and even made a joke about them tapping me like a maple tree for sap.

“Your pharmacy is like an extended family ….” pathetically, yes.

I think that I am going to have to get this, for those days when all that goes into Type 1 care gets to you.

Thanks.

By: AmyT

AmyT — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:28:38 +0000

OK, just for fun I’m adding mine.

At breakfast one morning:

Daughter # 2 (age 9), holding up a mini-muffin: “Mom, does this have insulin in it?”

Daughter #1 (age 11): “That’s stupid. It has carbs in it.”

Daughter #3 (the little one): “Oh, so you can’t eat it because of those insulin barbs.”

Me: help!

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:56:27 +0000

I just got Haidee’s book today and it is one word: H Y S T E R I C A L anyone with type 1 that has a good sense of humor will love it i swear no jokes there lol.

Gina