type 2 diabetes industry

Back from our winter cruise, gained 10 lbs of course, mainly from big buffet breakfasts and desserts at supper. And lack of willpower, as per usual.

Have started back on the recumbent bike, when I haven't tired out snowblowing my friggin driveway from all the god damn snow. I think I strained my left arm from boxing on Wii, and it is frequent, drifting pain. Hurray for advil.

One thing I want to emphasize is the that type 2 diabetes business is all about: diagnosis, prescription of several drugs, frequent testing of blood sugar level, and talking about exercise. In Cda, our Cdn Diabetes Assoc magazine runs the same fuckin articles in rotation about diet and exercise, some study they've done, surrounded by whole page glossy ads by giant drug and equipment cos for testing equipment. There is no weight on finding a cure, or dealing with the mundane realities of type 2 diabetes.

Get diagnosed, take drugs, test your blood. Repeat for 30 years. Buy the latest meter, as if they're any different - not at all. Who cares if one is slightly faster? or slightly more accurate? Not me. No articles from actual t2ds, no political activism, no critical analysis of anything. A bunch of pap. The articles never go beyond the superficial, the obvious, now the cliches of type 2 diabetes. No personal angst or anger ever expressed. Everyone is happy and smiling in the accompanying photos. Eat wise! Exercise every day! Go fuck yourself! I'm sick of it.

The closet t2ds, which is almost all of us of course, never see any humanity, any friggin specifics, just all this useless repetitive cliched general crap. If I had a million dollars, I'd start up a store front centre with foot care, a pragmatic dietician who is a t2d, MD with t2d experience and empathy, exercise coach who is t2d and overweight, eye doc or optician, pharmacist to explain and reconcile the meds, researcher to update us on real, not phony developements in the research that matters, psychological experts/shrinks or psychologists.

Anyhow, that's what I think. To any t2ds out there: do the best you can, don't despair.