It is an American custom to present the people with familiar faces, celebrities, and what they said or done in situation we face. It is important in election, presumed we will follow our leaders with millions income. So do with diabetes. Celebrities with diabetes show up on shows and share what they eat and how they are suffered till they curb carbs and sugars. Not they are diabetes free or happy and manage diabetes which did not stop them.
It is easy to be rich and celebrity. I am not one of them. I am 'simple'. No one do know my face. I am one of this millions who went not diagnosed with diabetes and lived year after year trying to get better with workouts and starvation. Nothing worked. Finally, there no health insurance, no medicine, no income, and I am not capable to work. Typical situation all 'simple' Americans face.
In 2011 first time I injected insulin in my belly. It was just 11 units. I got my insulin pen as a participant of some studies. Studies studied how insulin effect diabetics type 2 and if it can be used as therapy. The point was, start from low dose, and then increase dose by 3 units every three days if sugar still going up. If sugar is normal, stay on this dose. If sugar is down, decrease dose by 3 units.
So, I did. Every three days I increased dose of insulin by three units and soon ... I was out of study. I hit limit, 20 units a day, and my sugar still going up and up. There were no any explanation to me, nothing, no any $ paid that I participated in studies. But they demanded I have to return box with pens. So I did when all pens were empty. Not long after I had my near death experience.
Somehow I got insurance, and it paid for insulin. My dose of insulin increased every three days. Finally it was 260 units. Now Medicaid was terminated. My man lost job, but his unemployment check was higher then $1100, poverty line to be qualified for Medicaid. Insulin delivery stopped. To buy insulin I need $2000 monthly. Even now when my man has a job we cannot afford to pay for insulin. Finally my man got the job, and health plan. So by now I do have insulin delivery every three month. I can still breath and going.
Very often I can read how celebrity diabetics manage diabetes. I cannot. I can do it with insulin, but very often insulin out of option. Anyway, it is long, very long story to live with diabetes and have all junk medicine and attempt to manage it with life style, so by now I simple drift as it going, and try to avoid pain as much as I can. I gave up my membership in Bally. It is only about $100 a year, not so expensive and my man will pay it, I cannot use it. At first I could not work out, then I could not get there. Now I do have scooter and I probably could take a ride, but .... I cannot dress or change by myself. So simple, what I do have now work very well, but all come too late, and it is useless.
It is easy to be rich and celebrity. I am not one of them. I am 'simple'. No one do know my face. I am one of this millions who went not diagnosed with diabetes and lived year after year trying to get better with workouts and starvation. Nothing worked. Finally, there no health insurance, no medicine, no income, and I am not capable to work. Typical situation all 'simple' Americans face.
In 2011 first time I injected insulin in my belly. It was just 11 units. I got my insulin pen as a participant of some studies. Studies studied how insulin effect diabetics type 2 and if it can be used as therapy. The point was, start from low dose, and then increase dose by 3 units every three days if sugar still going up. If sugar is normal, stay on this dose. If sugar is down, decrease dose by 3 units.
So, I did. Every three days I increased dose of insulin by three units and soon ... I was out of study. I hit limit, 20 units a day, and my sugar still going up and up. There were no any explanation to me, nothing, no any $ paid that I participated in studies. But they demanded I have to return box with pens. So I did when all pens were empty. Not long after I had my near death experience.
Somehow I got insurance, and it paid for insulin. My dose of insulin increased every three days. Finally it was 260 units. Now Medicaid was terminated. My man lost job, but his unemployment check was higher then $1100, poverty line to be qualified for Medicaid. Insulin delivery stopped. To buy insulin I need $2000 monthly. Even now when my man has a job we cannot afford to pay for insulin. Finally my man got the job, and health plan. So by now I do have insulin delivery every three month. I can still breath and going.
Very often I can read how celebrity diabetics manage diabetes. I cannot. I can do it with insulin, but very often insulin out of option. Anyway, it is long, very long story to live with diabetes and have all junk medicine and attempt to manage it with life style, so by now I simple drift as it going, and try to avoid pain as much as I can. I gave up my membership in Bally. It is only about $100 a year, not so expensive and my man will pay it, I cannot use it. At first I could not work out, then I could not get there. Now I do have scooter and I probably could take a ride, but .... I cannot dress or change by myself. So simple, what I do have now work very well, but all come too late, and it is useless.
via Ravenvoron
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