I have two injector pens. If you mean hypodermic syringes, I've never had the pleasure of using them.
Isn't this the cutest thing ever?
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I have two injector pens. If you mean hypodermic syringes, I've never had the pleasure of using them.
Not to diminish people suffering from Type II diabetes and what they go through but from my experiences with my father it doesn't seem "too bad" given the injector pen development. Yeah, the diet restrictions and just having to do that and the blood tests can certainly suck but it sucks that twice a day I have to swallow pills to keep my body working right.
I think having a bit of levity in this regard is called for. AP's post wasn't to suggest that diabetes was funny or something to make light of just that he found it so sweet it ruined the insulin production of his pancreas making him diabetic. He found the sight of an apparently dead furry rodent cute.
It's sort of a popular-culture meme. The story goes that sometime ago (sometime around the release of Pretty Woman) Richard Gere was admitted to the hospital and given emergency surgery to have a gerbil removed from his colon as he was practicing an illogical and likely impossible sex-act of placing such an animal up there to... derive... pleasure? The surgery supposedly happened in secret but word got out. I don't think many really "believe" it as it's mostly an urban legend, he's never addressed it one way or another, and the "source" of the story is dubious not to mention the pure logistics of such an act.
I think having a bit of levity in this regard is called for. AP's post wasn't to suggest that diabetes was funny or something to make light of just that he found it so sweet it ruined the insulin production of his pancreas making him diabetic. He found the sight of an apparently dead furry rodent cute.
It's sort of a popular-culture meme. The story goes that sometime ago (sometime around the release of Pretty Woman) Richard Gere was admitted to the hospital and given emergency surgery to have a gerbil removed from his colon as he was practicing an illogical and likely impossible sex-act of placing such an animal up there to... derive... pleasure? The surgery supposedly happened in secret but word got out. I don't think many really "believe" it as it's mostly an urban legend, he's never addressed it one way or another, and the "source" of the story is dubious not to mention the pure logistics of such an act.
I assume you mean Type I diabetes (that’s the kind where you have to inject insulin and monitor your blood sugar several times daily). Type II is the milder form of the disease, which can be controlled by diet and medication and normally requires checking your blood sugar two or three times a week.
In any case, facetiously saying “That could give you diabetes” is a common response to something perceived as overly sweet or cutesy. I’ve used it myself more times than I can remember.
Lagomorph, dammit, not rodent!
And I still say kittens are cuter than bunnies!
Who made you look at this??
Family. I was sort of...blackmailed into watching a couple of childbrith videos of my kid cousins over the years. Long story.
I can tolerate most other medical images and procedures and even sail right through them, but don't have a strong stomach when it comes to childbirth. I was a very, very difficult breech birth the day I was born and there are times I think the subconscious trauma of that event has haunted me throughout my life. It's a theory I've heard associated with other people who were breech births.
Not to compare any of this with the actual pain of childbirth, mind you. Apples and oranges. But we all have little things that make us queasy and childbirth is one of mine.
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