The Total Femme

The longer I have this crappy disease, the more I experience and the more shit I dig up about how people with diabetes are treated by the U.S. “health” industry. This is a social justice issue about which I knew nothing before I was diagnosed with LADA in January (that’s latent, auto-immune, diabetes, in adults, or close enough).

            “This is NOT YOUR FAULT!” said the lovely hospital chaplain, grabbing my hands as I sobbed, but I tell you what, she’s just about the only person in the medical system to show me any grace or understanding. (Ok, there have been a few others, including the ICU nurses and techs, but it’s few and far apart.)

            As a result, people with diabetes are doing it for themselves and each other. Thank fucking goodness!

            Susan, you get one pingy-dingy! Thank you for your generosity in sharing your hard-earned knowledge about how to care for ourselves all the while that the MANMACHINE kicks us when we’re down, over and over. Your blog is a love letter to people with diabetes!

https://cruisingwithdiabeticsusan.com/

I’m a typewriter whompin’, card catalogue lovin’ white girl from back in the day, and I yearn for a time before the covers of trade paperbacks were all squidgy, so you can imagine that I don’t actually understand what a pingback is. I do know that it can in some way be part of spreading the love, and since that’s what I’m all about at The Total Femme… every Wednesday, I pay homage to the laughter, love, and inspiration to be had elsewhere online. Is there someplace online that you particularly adore? Send it my way and I’ll slap it into the Pingy-Dingy lineup! thetotalfemme@gmail.com