Category Archives: Diabetes

The safety net my family offered me turned out to be full of holes and then the security blanket caught fire

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Gabriel...

We cannot recover from diseases like diabetes or manic depression without help from the people around us. Without help I was left to the whim of a disease which convinced me day after day, hour after hour, that I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Disability, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Poverty | Tagged | 9 Comments

Then I remembered the answers lay in bagels

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Gabriel...

Just a quick post, with some good news… finally: my blood sugar levels are as close to normal as they have been since 2001. Over the past three days I’ve gotten the numbers down from mid-20’s to eight. I’m so … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Poverty | Tagged | 13 Comments

The Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services hates disabled people

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Gabriel...

CAUTION: This post was written after receiving some very bad… incredibly incorrect information from an ODSP worker who was either very new, or very, very drunk. It turns out things weren’t nearly as bad as he made it out to … Continue reading →

Posted in Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, CSG, Diabetes, Disability, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, ODSP, Poverty | Tagged , | 15 Comments

Too much and not enough…

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Gabriel...

There’s too much to write about at the moment, which means there’s a backlog in my head… which means when I sit down to write about one thing, three other things get in the way. So, instead of writing about … Continue reading →

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An update on my foot because I finally took my little piggy’s to the ER

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Gabriel...

“I started [blood-glucose] testing again because I’ve had a pain of varying intensity in my right foot for more than a month now. Surprisingly my plan of doing nothing hasn’t worked, and it has only gotten worse. It’s a burning … Continue reading →

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Live by the blood glucose meter, die by the blood glucose meter

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Gabriel...

“That’s right. My Type Two Diabetes is under control. Moth. Er. Fuck. Er. I got a 7.2 reading on my metre today. A seven point fucking two. Three weeks ago I was bouncing between 12 and 18. Three weeks before … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | Tagged | 13 Comments