Following is a quote from Face Book From the Navy Hospital Corpsman Group.
Diabetics are the only people who inject themselves, NOT TO GET HIGH.
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Well when I was not on my pain pump, (insulin pump, as I am now) I’d say “time to shoot up!” as i got my pen ready. Or “gotta feed my addiction”.
I’m gonna delete my comment because I realize it’s inappropriate in this setting. I hear those words uttered in complete dismissive ignorance locally, in response to our “drug problem” so often that I see red when I see/hear it now. I’m guessing most in this community would read it with humor, but like many other things, it went right over my head. I actually thought this was another post about a public figure saying something inappropriate. It doesn’t help that I was sitting down to treat a hypo when I read that, and I’m mean when I’m low.
Drug problem is in quotes up there because my small town has a person with some pretty serious mental health issues who tries to talk insensibly to people in town and it makes them uncomfortable… Which pretty much daily turns into a rant against drug abusers (which he is not, it’s a terrible assumption) and the absurd fact that anyone can walk into our pharmacy and get syringes. It’s ALWAYS followed with a dismissive comment along the lines of “it’s JUST the diabetics using them not to get high”. As if our lives are wasted anyway because we did this to ourselves (their opinion, not mine!), so why should anything be easy for us… Especially when it facilitates the druggies! So yeah. It raises my hackles.
I have deleted my post in respect to Robyn. I am here to understand, learn and contribute when able, not to judge. This is always an extra tough time of the year for diabetics so peace to all. Let’s enjoy our family time together and be thankful that we have made it through another year relatively unscathed.
Sorry if my humor affine you in anyway.
We navy Corpsman. Are just a strange lot
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Maybe rephrase as “To get NOT high”. That leaves all the other injectors out of things, people giving themselves medications that prevent blood clotting, or for whatever other reasons?
Anyway, if people choose to inject substances into their bodies to alter their reality, who am I to judge? I’d rather that they don’t perhaps because of all the unnecessary complications (including immediate death) but it’s not my body, I don’t own it!
This internet chat is about whatever we make it, as long as it remains respectful (in my view) should reflect who we all are.
I’m trying to excuse myself out of the thread. It’s not that I was offended. It’s that I missed the humor entirely. I honestly didn’t know this was a “ha ha” thing. I thought it was a “can you believe someone at the hospital posted this??” sort of thing.
Like I said, I was hypo and crabby… Just ignore the blonde in the corner.
I remember seeing a Law & Order episode way back that had a plot point about people injecting insulin recreationally. There were lots of factually dubious things on that show and on TV generally, but that one stopped me cold. There is absolutely NOTHING enjoyable or euphoric or anything else about a hypo. NOTHING. I’ve seen lots of dumb stuff about D in TV and movies, but I couldn’t believe any show could be that dumb.
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I was watching the last season of Doc Martin in which a person with diabetes passes out because of hypoglycemia. Almost everything they said about diabetes during that episode was 100% wrong! The inaccuracies made me angry. All it took was a little bit of research. No wonder people without diabetes are so confused about how to treat diabetes.
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Love that show but I must have missed that episode—I’ll have to look for it. Always happy to get a new entry for my collection of “Bad T1 Episodes in Film and TV.”
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Making a movie or TV show is about telling a good story that will sell ads. The real version is often unmarketable. My favourite example is the very famous, very popular movie, “Three Faces of Eve” about a woman with multiple personality disorder. The book and movie started with a real woman who had about 20 different personalities. Too complicated, so they went with 3. She was never cured. Not a good ending, so they cured her. And the cause was a repressed memory that she finally recovered. Again, nothing to do with real multiple personality disorder, but it made for a great ending that the audience believed and paid to go see. This film came out in 1953, when many psychiatrists believed all neuroses and psychoses are caused by repressed memories (they aren’t).
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I remember a movie about a prisoner with type1 and the guards didn’t give him his insulin because he was being trans ported somewhere so he got sicker and more disabled as it went, then he got his insulin injected and like magic he was on his feet ready to fight2 seconds later. Diabetes is too boring for dramatic movies and tv so they have to alter reality
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I see no humour in this posting. Addiction is a social issue, in addition to a medical issue; therefore, the comparison is a false equivalency anyway, and totally mean-spirited towards those of us who have lost family members to addiction. My nephew died after becoming addicted to pain killers issued by his doctor after a car accident that was NOT his fault left him with horrendous headaches, neck pain, dizziness and spinal pain. By the time the doctor stopped renewing the prescriptions, my nephew was addicted and turned to street drugs to cope with the pain. An overdose of fentanyl ended his life and my sister’s, his father’s, his siblings’ and his children’s lives will never been the same. Nor will my own. My nephew suffered from physical pain; others who become addicted suffer from psychological/emotional pain. Is that supposed to make them “bad?” and unworthy of empathy? Come on!
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The term addiction had been watered down. It’s used very casually these days and it’s really lost it’s serious meaning.
People call themselves chochahaulics and claim to be addicted to carbs or to doughnuts or coffee.
It makes perfect sense why someone would make light of it when we treat it so lightly and casual.
It’s not that people have lost empathy, it’s just that the terms have become cliche over used and diluted .
When someone makes a joke about it, it’s not necessarily meant to annoy you or minimize your pain.
We all cope in different ways sometimes humor helps.
We can also just accept that comments that we don’t like can be passed over because they don’t have anything to do with our real lives
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I’m sure there are those out there who think we may be addicted to insulin. I have no idea how many times I have been told by an unknowing person that I can cure diabetes if I just watch my diet and get some exercise.
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You can, but also you need a pancreas transplant and some cyclosporine . Then diet and exercise will cure you
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