Don’t lie…you know you have the Jonas Brothers catalog on your iPod.
no way! woah
CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer has “face[d] the nation” with type 2 diabetes for many years every Sunday.
If I recall correctly, Schieffer hadn’t experienced any symptoms, he was diagnosed during an annual doctor appointment. At first, he controlled his diabetes with diet, exercise and loosing weight. Now, he’s on insulin once a day.
The free diabetes magazines in my doctor’s office and local pharmacy usually feature a famous diabetic each month; I recall reading about Nick Jonas (already mentioned above) in one.
In the 1995 movie “Species”, the female alien murders a human male when they start to make out and she realizes he is insulin dependent, because with such a serious genetic defect he would be an unsuitable mate. Talk about rejection!
Chris Matthews was featured on DLife TV once. He is a type 2.
During the first season of “Prison Break” the lead character takes something that helps him “pretend” to be a type 1 diabetic in order to give him access to the infirmary.
That would be PUGNAc.
AH, I remember that, too!
…what? haha. That, sadly, does not surprise me at all.
…ouch.
I’m glad my bf isn’t so judgemental.
a few years ago there was an episode of one tree hill where a kid goes into the school with a gun and he holds some of the students hostage, one of the girls that is in the room is a T1 and she has a high i think and the gun toting kid lets her go to get her insulin, the next thing you know she is running down the hall. it didn’t add up to me at the time so i don’t know exactly was the deal in that.
then another show that i remember watching was touched by an angel (yeah loooong time ago). a girl was just DX with T1 she was in high school and in the middle of a volleyball game her boyfriend shows up and he’s freaked out that she has T1 and she overdoses trying to show him she knows how to take care of herself. (yeah not smart when you were playing volleyball honey).
She was wearing the gluco-watch…which they don’t make anymore, I think. But yeah, thats another movie that gives us diabetics a bad name. lol
actually the gluco watch was a fake! Some nike watch or something, the technology was there back then
One of the Flanders kids in the Simpsons is type 1: They mention it in the episode where they start bringing prescription drugs across the border.
It was also mentioned on South Park last week, but I don’t remember to what extent.
The older woman in Chocolat has diabetes as well–they don’t mention what type but she takes shots. She dies in the movie. Very positive message…though I like her stubbornness!
One of the nurses’ sons in ER has type 1, but they only mention it in like one episode years and years ago (alex…Samantha’s son).
yeah that’s the episode i was talking about with Touched by an Angel. i was so confused at all that myself.
I JUST saw that one the other night lol I love that show
For those in the UK, this week’s Waterloo Road (no, really) - dealt with the “T1 girls failing to take their insulin so as to lose weight” thing. Even had a scene where said girl collapsed and teacher was shouted down when she suggested “giving her sugar”. Not often you get a real diabetes issue dealt with on primetime.
There is a movie called Momento where a man has short term memory loss to the point where he can’t remember anything past about 2 minutes. His wife doesn’t exactly believe him, so she decides to test it. She is diabetic, and he gives her the insulin shots. Well, she tells him it’s time to take her insulin. He gives it to her. Two minutes later she says that it’s time for her insulin again. He gives it to her. After doing this like 5 times, she finally realizes that he was not faking his condition, and she dies. She also used him to commit suicide.
It may be horrible and it may not be what we want to hear, but it does happen.
Her (Julia Roberts) kidneys were shot…