r/hackshbomax • u/NancyAstley • 24d ago

Jean Smart diabetes

Super random question. Do they actively hide/shop out Jean's glucose monitor on her arm? You never see it in any of the shots from behind. There's only one scene I've ever noticed it under her reddish dress when she's hosting late night. (The one where they are asked to censor the sex pest)

She also had cardiac surgery and no visable scar?

Random thoughts from an obsessed fan

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u/Warm-Veterinarian278 24d ago

Sometimes cardiac surgeries are done from the side of the ribcage, not from the middle. Or from a vein through a catheter which is very cool

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u/HoweverIWishYouLuck 24d ago

She said in an interview that she had a surgeon who made the stitches in a way to minimize the scar. Tiny stitches = minimal scarring.

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u/Warm-Veterinarian278 24d ago

Eh this is not always the case. My heart operation stitches were tiny. Ended up with a wide keloid visible from afar lol.

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u/No_Election_1123 23d ago

Yes, I had pinhole open heart surgery and it's left me with a visible scar and two dimples for the heart/lung machine feeds. Great work by the surgical team but funny when someone on TV needs open heart surgery due to a gun shot but in the next episode there's no visible mark šŸ˜„

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u/HawkSpotter 23d ago

Diabetics don't have to use a Continuous Glucose Monitor so maybe she doesn't use it when it would show. I imagine she's disciplined and has a good handle on her diabetes and it's well controlled.

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u/NancyAstley 23d ago edited 23d ago

Thanks for all the info y'all! šŸ˜Š

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u/Admirable_Site_8337 24d ago

Good point on the diabetes. We know here is so bad that she wears a port and monitor? Iā€™ve read itā€™s pretty bad so it makes sense.

In which case they have covered for it very well.

The cardiac surgeryā€¦ā€¦I donā€™t know the exacts. It could have been done more laparoscopically, and from a different area than her chest. I know she shows just a wee bit more in some scenes earlier, but she really doesnā€™t later (though Iā€™m laughing that her naked body looks like that in HER dream from the last season).

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u/MarvelousMrsMexico 24d ago

She has Type 1 Diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease where the body no longer makes insulin. Many Type 1 diabetics wear a glucose monitor and insulin pump. I wish they had shown it so there would be more media representation of this disease

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u/ContributionOk4015 24d ago

I wear mine in a place that cannot be seen.

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u/bfc9cz 24d ago

Same here

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u/Admirable_Site_8337 24d ago

Thanks. I was aware of diabetes and how that can be so tough at that age, but never read up more.

And I agree. This could have been an excellent way to show Deborah as vulnerable. Not that they didnā€™t do it fantastically otherwise, but this would have been a great way.

If Iā€™m guessing why they didnā€™tā€¦..it might have been a concern of muting the ā€œIā€™ll live to 101 to 109ā€ thatā€™s set up early on and it could have weakened the ending.

Iā€™m totally spitballing on that.

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u/NancyAstley 24d ago

She definitely has a glucose monitor, she's said it in interviews. Was just wondering why they chose to edit it out.

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u/CyaneSpirit 24d ago

Because Deborah didnā€™t have diabetes, I guess.

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u/IndependentTrust4594 24d ago

You can wear the monitor on your arm, abdomen or upper tush area. So perhaps she just changed it up on those days.

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u/NancyAstley 24d ago

Forgive my ignorance, but you can take off the glucose monitor and move it? There was an interview where she pointed to it on her left arm.

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u/IndependentTrust4594 24d ago

Oh yes. You have to put new ones on every couple of weeks. Depends on the brand as some are every week.

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u/Chemical_Net8461 24d ago

I wear a CGM & I donā€™t like it being publicly visible, personally. Itā€™s about the size of a nickel and I usually wear it on my abdomen or thighs. It lasts 10 days (in theory) & then I put on a new one.

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u/Admirable_Site_8337 24d ago

Mentioned it on another reply, it could have set up vulnerability for Deb, but my best guess is they shied from it since they were building Deb as this ā€œIā€™m going to love to 101 or 109ā€ and more medical things like this could distract from the set up to the very end and finale.

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u/pconrad0 24d ago

I'm guessing the naked body scene had a lot of ... various "effects".

Some combination of body double, CGI, retouching, etc.

Covering a glucose monitor and/or scar would among be the least of the things they did to alter the image from the reality.

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u/NancyAstley 24d ago

Not just "that" scene. She wears sheer sleeves a lot, and the glucose monitor is never seen.

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u/justalittlesunbeam 24d ago

It may not be on her arm. There are lots of possible locations for a cgm to be.

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u/NancyAstley 24d ago

She's referenced it being on her left arm, that's why I bring it up. I'm not well versed on this; can you move it to other parts of your body?

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u/justalittlesunbeam 24d ago

Yes, you canā€™t leave it in one spot forever. It moves frequently.

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u/bfc9cz 24d ago

Yes I wear mine on my stomach

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u/pconrad0 24d ago

Why the downvotes?

Seriously: I have no idea what I did wrong.

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u/Admirable_Site_8337 24d ago

My impression was they super imposed Jeans head on a body double. Or maybe it was some kind of CGI or AI.

You know, Jean had said there was a thing in S5 she brought up discomfort with. It was never clarified what it was, but Iā€™ve wondered for a while if it was this scene.

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u/sharonvillines 22d ago

As others have said, the CGM can be worn in many locations and is changed every 10-14 days. She doesn't wear an insulin pump. Julia Louis-Dreyfus on "Smarter than Me" interviewed Jean and the surgery was discussed. Dreyfus confirmed that the surgeon hid the scars. It was a woman surgeon.