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Other: Diabetes Ink

This category often represents imagery that encompasses many themes, sometimes larger than diabetes itself.

Here’s what they’re saying:

Your last campfire is looking out over that Lake. If you think and know Huronda, that is what you’re going to think of.” (Huronda is a camp for people with diabetes in Ontario)

Clark

a tattoo of a boat on a body of water
Clark
a person's arm with a tattoo on it
Paton
a tattoo on a man's arm
Sipf
a person's arm with a tattoo
Alabert

I came up with this tattoo idea as I am from London, Ontario and Sir. Frederick Banting discovered my life saving medication (insulin) right in my home town.

Paton

a person with tattoos on their arm
Daters
a woman with glasses and a tattoo on her chest
Marrows
a person's arm with a tattoo of roses
Sargeant
a tattoo of flowers in a jar
Sferra

The repurposed insulin bottle as a vase is kind of like a pretty way to commemorate the liquid that keeps me going.

Sferra

a wrist with a wristband and a wrist tattoo
Hepner
a woman with a tattoo on her back
Melvin
a person's stomach with a patch on it
Burns
a tattoo of sunflowers in a jar
Jones

I am the flower growing thanks to insulin because without this precious liquid, I would not be here.

Alabert

a woman with a tattoo on her arm
Kaighn
a person's arm with a tattoo
Lawrence
a close up of a tattoo on a wrist
Stachan
a person with a tattoo on their arm
Patton

Submit YOUR story / tattoo

If you’re interested in sharing, here is what we are looking for. Please email to banting@diabetes.ca 

  1. Name 
  2. Age you received your tattoo
  3. Age you received your (or your friend/family) diagnosis
  4. Location 
  5. 2-3 sentences why you got your tattoo.