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I’ve had a rough week. You could say I’ve had my ups and downs, physiologically and emotionally. I was diagnosed with diabetes seven days ago.
But this is not a death sentence, of course. In fact, diabetes is widespread in this country among both young and old. I think we could see a “diabetes chic” begin to emerge soon. You heard it here first.
Even if diabetes doesn’t take off as an alternative lifestyle, I believe we can revamp its image. Here’s a portfolio I’m submitting to modeling agencies. The first shot evokes the mobile professional carrying his glucose meter and insulin delivery equipment in a stylish neoprene hip case. Unfortunately, I already tote around a Pocket PC and collapsable keyboard, so the hipster effect is somewhat diminished, as the second shot reveals.
Unholstering the glucose meter need not give anyone the impression that one is not a mover and a shaker (but try to keep those hypoglycemic tremors under control). In the third shot we see how healthcare hassles can be parlayed into hubba-hubba. The caption: “Call me on my other cell.”
The fourth shot plays to the strengths of the ubiquitous hypodermic needle. Look to heroin chic and amputee chic for evidence that grotesquerie can be groovy.
Diabetics can complete their look with medic alert fashion jewelry.
Got Insulin? Just Do It. 
Nilster. Sorry to hear about it.
P.S. is that G Scott Brown in the pictures above?
:)
See ya soon!
While saddened to hear your news, I was delighted to see your photo shoot demonstrating the newest in endocrine gadgets. TRES chic.
While many people, while shopping for an insulin pump, are happy with one that can deliver by square wave or sine wave—to be VERY cool, yours should be able to deliver a waveform of, say, the sonic spectrum of Orff’s Carmina Burrana.
Here’s to euglycemia!
Wow, Nils. I think you may have stumbled upon a second possible career with this photo shoot stuff. I’m very impressed—these are fantastic! I am sorry to hear about the diabetes though.
Since I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes a couple of months ago and have the same thing as Nils, I found this particularly humorous. Humor and the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding is important! Let me know if I can help any …
Sharon
This is great. Can I link to it and feature some text on DiabeticBooks.com?
The Bat Belt Effect — Geeks, Dorks and Diabetics
Nils has a great piece on changing the view of folks with “Bat Belts.” Nils is a fellow diabetic, unfortunately a new one (October), and believes that we can usher in a new “Diabetes Chic” movement! …
Sure. Reading the front page of your interesting site, it strikes me as amazing and humorous how predictable the geek mind can be. A month after my own Type 1 diagnosis, I began work on a diabetes management tool for the Pocket PC.
Carry on.
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