# @hoopinnlootin on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRCjxODja2q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36992692-hoopinnlootin-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/948fbc7370.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-11-14T14:19:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hoopin’N’Lootin (@hoopinnlootin) — https://gondola.cc/hoopinnlootin

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It’s #worlddiabetesday and for many years I’d have avoided mentioning a thing about it. It’s taken a lot of years to accept that there’s a huge lack of knowledge about what type 1 diabetes is. It’s hard dealing with sensationalism in the media that we’re all just overweight and drink 30 red bulls a day. This little thing on my arm monitors my sugar levels that I have to manage due to my pancreas not creating a thing called insulin which breaks down sugar that usually occurs naturally.

I’ve been asked many times what it is. Shout out Eddie who even thought it was a coil 😂😂. It’s why you’ll see my put my phone up to my arm, it’s essential for me to manage the condition. 

I used to be fearful of the questions, but actually those questions help me explain what it’s for, and hopefully that goes a little way to there being more understanding for others that wear the same thing.

Type 1 diabetes dominates my life but it’s also given me balance and discipline. It doesn’t stop you doing or achieving whatever you want to achieve!

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