Health·Posted on Oct 14, 201717 Pictures That Show What Living With Diabetes Is Actually LikeType 1 diabetes in a nut shell: needles, blood, more needles and more blood.by Connor DunlapBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Having diabetes means finding used test strips pretty much everywhere. 2. And by everywhere... 3. ...I mean, EVERYWHERE. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 4. Honestly, having to constantly squeeze drops of blood from my finger-tips is a bigger priority. 5. Is this a murder scene? Nah, this is just a Tuesday morning. 6. And this is just a Tuesday afternoon. 7. Oops, I hit a blood vessel while inserting a continuous blood glucose monitor into my arm. Better try again! 8. Hitting a blood vessel twice in a row feels just as terrible as you think it would. 9. It attached without spurting blood everywhere? Good. Now I can shift my focus to the inch-long metal wire poking into my arm. View this photo on Instagram 10. Seriously: It's an INCH-LONG. METAL. WIRE. 11. Oh, and don't mind me! Just gotta deal with this disgusting bleeding hole in my side. View this photo on Instagram 12. Which is actually something I deal with all the time. 13. It honestly never ends. View this photo on Instagram 14. I could always take needle injections instead. 15. Lots and lots of needle injections. 16. But I still have to clean blood off of the counter. 17. And now I guess I have to go clean blood off of my shirt, too.