Diabetes Blog Week, Day 6 - Saturday Snapshots!

Gluco John and Polly Yoorea encounter the Diabetes Fairy in Sugar Town!

More creatures born from the detritus of Diabetes Mellitus at http://diabotica.blogspot.com/ !

New website for Diabotics!

All the diabotics now have their own dedicated website at http://www.diabotica.blogspot.com/ Diabotics are creatures crafted from the sundry detritus of the treatment of diabetes mellitus, and making them is great fun for young and old alike!

Diabotic - Accu Chick!

The latest addition to the diabotics range of creatures constructed from the assorted debris and detritus of diabolical diabetes!

Materials:

1 x Accu Chek test strips box
1 x outer needle cover

2 x Novorapid insulin cartridges

4 x inner needle covers

20 x needle tip covers

32 x Accu chek test strips

Dia-Dalek!

Presenting Dia-Dalek, scourge of Time Lords everywhere! I've been a fan of Doctor Who since the very beginning - back in the William Hartnell days, so the image of a Dalek has always been buried deep in my subconscious. I even got a red Dalek outfit for Christmas when I was about six years old, and went out to exterminate the Thompson brothers from up the road. Sadly, my weaponry was inactive, and they drove me away with their ping-pong guns - curse you Thompson brothers! Apparently, my father and a couple of his friends emerged from the pub down the road after having their lunchtime Christmas pint, saw a red Dalek fighting two ping-pong firing galactipedes, and decided to return to the pub until their sanity returned...



Dia-Dalek is therefore my crude tribute to these glorious creations - wonderful to see how prominently they are still are in the current storylines, despite numerous extinctions! Dia-Dalek is a diabotic - a creature constructed from the detritus of a diabetic life...as follows:

Materials:
1 x Novofine 6mm needle box
20 x AccuChek test strips
20 x needle tip protectors
1 x needle cap
1 x Lantus cartridge
1 x Multiclix lancet
6 x Candesarten blister packs

...with the rest of the gang...

Another Diabotic!

Here's 'Diverpot' lovingly constructed by AlisonM!

More diabotics!

Just thought I would add in my latest creations - the Diabotwins Polly Urea and Gluco Jon!

Yet more diabotics!

A couple more magnificent creations! Above is 'Lancepot' by AlisonM, mostly constructed from...erm...lancets and test strip pots! Below is the amazing 'Diadogbot' by am64!

More Diabotics!

Some more great diabotics posted to the forum! Katie's (above and below) is called 'Gertrude':

...and this is Diadoode from Rossi_Mac:

Diabotics!

There’s an enormous amount of detritus that accompanies diabetes care: needles, test strips, insulin cartridges etc., plus all those pills that the doctors assure us are necessary to stop our arteries clogging up and keep our blood pressure the right side of critical. As someone who used to possibly take 4 paracetamols a year prior to diagnosis, it’s still quite astonishing to me just how much stuff I now discard on a daily basis.

Someone on the forum brought my attention to Diabotics – it’s the art of sculpting objects using only the items left over from daily diabetes care. Sounded like a great idea to me, so I set about storing away all those odds and ends until I felt ready to attempt my master work, resulting in the stunning and awe-inspiring diabotic – Diababooshka! OK, maybe not up to Damien Hirst’s standards, but it was a lot of fun!