A peculiar comorbidity.
okay, so over the past few months, i've been dealing with this relatively new diagnosis of what the doctors think is type 1 diabetes, but what I hope is just some sort of weird insulin processing disorder (I had the A1C of a type 2 diabetic; the antibody reaction and the DKA admission of a type 1 diabetic; the C-peptide of a type 2 diabetic; the fat and protein bump of a nondiabetic) that might be LADA, might just be my body's way of doing type 1, might be something entirely new. either way, it's a pain in the ass not just in the expected ways (my grandparents refuse to recognize that my medical costs have gone up exponentially and think that the insurance company just automatically covers insulin and that it's the fault of the CVS for charging me $120 for 90 days of pen needles and $150 for insulin without coupon; they're part of that "fend for yourself" crowd; I've run head-first into how absolutely fucked up and monstrous the American healthcare