November is American Diabetes Month, so if you’ve still got all your appendages, say a quick ‘thank you.’ Another consequence of the disease is of course blindness. In fact, Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults.
So somebody (maybe the American Diabetes Association), thought the best way to call attention to this was to post this “funny” NSFW video (hoping it will go viral) which prompts you to visit a microsite DiabetesIsNoPicnic. I don’t want to give away the joke, but it involves teenage masturbation. The responsible agency is Milwaukee’s Serve Marketing, a shop specializing in social advertising who previously Photoshopped D-cups onto 13-year olds to promote statutory rape awareness. |Video via: osocio|

The street artist freely acknowledged having multiple surgeries to repair damaged blood vessels, “Eventually I got the bleeds in both eyes and they had to do the surgery. When I had the first surgery they were able to break up the blood with a laser and it was disintegrated. But if there’s enough bleeding in your eye then they have to just cut your eye open drain the fluid and replace it with saline,” adding, “Yeah that’s what I’ve had twice.” Now that the procedure was a success he says he’s “all good” and describes his vision as 20/25 in one eye and 20/30 in the other. He even states that the surgery was quite rejuvenating, “My eyes look like they do on the inside when I was 16.”
Shepard isn’t taking his health for granted this time around though, mentioning that he’s really on top of monitoring his diabetes daily, “Now I check my blood sugar like 5-6 times a day, I used to check it like once a day. I wasn’t on top of it as much as I should be, I was irresponsible.” He’s even prepared in the event that he’s arrested while plastering up his posters after going through some harrowing attacks during brief incarcerations in the past, “The cops never believe you when you say you’re diabetic. Now I use an insulin pump which is actually attached to my body, the pump itself is like an IV and the pump itself stays in my pants pocket. “ That and his diabetic tattoo—the only one on his body—is usually enough to convince even the flattest foots.