SanFranciscan
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2007
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I am a newly diagnosed diabetic and on insulin. This is rare in adults my age, and I showed no indication of diabetes in blood tests from my last physical exam less than two years ago. Yet I just spent a week in the hospital with a couple of days in the ICU with blood clots in my lungs and diabetes I didn't even know that I had after feeling well enough to hike around the city just two days earlier. The pain of one condition led to the discovery of the other.
This can happen to anyone. I think that the people freaked out by us want to blame us the way other women want to blame rape victims and for much the same reason. It is much easier than facing their own vulnerability. We must all be fat slobs who brought our disease upon ourselves, because how else can those who sit in judgment of us feel safe? I am not overweight and have, in fact, been encouraged to gain some. I have been on a vegetarian diet for nearly ten years now, and I do not like greasy food. If you are not diabetic, you could be in a wink of an eye. Would you refuse to sit next to an amputee because you think stumps are disgusting? How about someone on portable oxygen? How is this different?
This can happen to anyone. I think that the people freaked out by us want to blame us the way other women want to blame rape victims and for much the same reason. It is much easier than facing their own vulnerability. We must all be fat slobs who brought our disease upon ourselves, because how else can those who sit in judgment of us feel safe? I am not overweight and have, in fact, been encouraged to gain some. I have been on a vegetarian diet for nearly ten years now, and I do not like greasy food. If you are not diabetic, you could be in a wink of an eye. Would you refuse to sit next to an amputee because you think stumps are disgusting? How about someone on portable oxygen? How is this different?
