Whats the most annoying comment you've ever gotten about diabetes?
I've gotten quite a lot of really annoying and sometimes even hurtful comments about my diabetes...
When i told a family friend who (by the way) is an assistant nurse about my condition she said "really? but you will get better right? it will go away when you start taking care of yourself?"
and i said "no, i will always be a diabetic and i will actually get worse since my body will eventually stop producing insulin all together"
and she still kept insisting that I would get better in time and that my condition would go away...
i couldnt believe she knew so little
When i told a family friend who (by the way) is an assistant nurse about my condition she said "really? but you will get better right? it will go away when you start taking care of yourself?"
and i said "no, i will always be a diabetic and i will actually get worse since my body will eventually stop producing insulin all together"
and she still kept insisting that I would get better in time and that my condition would go away...
i couldnt believe she knew so little
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Permalink Reply by Anonymous Jim on -
Just saw this yes late reply. Work at the enemy DHL. I had a supervisor tell me I should do that "Blood stuff" only in the bathroom. I ignored him a few weeks later he pulls up on my tug while I am parked behind some ULDs. "Thought I told you to do that stuff in the bathroom?", me "Bathroom is gross" "Well at least do it somewhere private." me "Can't get more private the my tug hidden behind a bunch of cans". Silence.
Of course I test whenever and wherever I want. Just make sure that I leave nothing behind. Of course they don't say anything to the people spitting dip all over the place.
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Permalink Reply by Natalie ._c- on -
I think that, since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, people are paranoid about blood. They seem to think even the sight of blood is dangerous. Contagion through the eyes?
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Permalink Reply by c on -
Dumbest comment I have heard recently was from a friend. She is lactose intolerant and she said, "I know exactly how you feel. We are in a very similar situation." What??? I was totally floored. I am a type 1, she has seen my pump and has watched me inject, and she said not eating dairy is like diabetes.
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Permalink Reply by Alice on -
that is dumb! I have a friend who recently discovered she has a food allergy...she did the same thing! telling me, "so this is what it's like for you." Are you freaking kidding me? :)
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Permalink Reply by Natalie ._c- on
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Planet Ignoramus. Because that is what they are -- ignorant. If they're worth keeping as friends, educate them; if not, ignore them. Nobody knows much about a disease they don't have, even if they've seen you inject or seen your pump. Nobody knows about the worries that are constantly going through your head, except other diabetics, or parents of diabetics. So forgive them, because they really don't know what they're saying. And when people speak from a position of ignorance, they make lots of mistakes.
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Permalink Reply by Lila on -
Actually I do sometimes tell people I have a carbohydrate intolerance because I find people understand that a little better. Whereas if you say 'I have diabetes', then out come a whole bunch of ignorant comments along the lines of 'oh, you must have eaten too much sugar as a kid'. I think of myself as basically allergic to carbohydrate and if that's what it takes to get people to understand why I eat my steak with a green salad rather than a baked potato, then that's what it takes.
It is not 100% the same as a food allergy of course. I see my lactose-intolerant friends taking a pill before they have dairy and I know the consequences of my condition are much more serious than anything a pill could counteract. But I also know that with the help of insulin, I can tolerate a lot more carb than a severely nut allergic person could.Some go into shock just from smelling peanut butter.
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Permalink Reply by lala_wolf on -
i had someone tell me that i could just eat that chocolate cake when i was just diagnosed. that i shouldn't be so strict on myself. and she knew what she was talking about cause her mom was a diabetic too....which i talked to her mom and she was a type 2 not a type one like me. but this girl kept insisting her mom was type one.
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Permalink Reply by ladyrayne67 on -
How about I would die if I don't..a sugar zombie??? omg..people need some serious social graces and pronto ! Egads !
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Permalink Reply by TimmyMac on -
Na, I really don't take offense to the whole "sugar zombie" thing. When my blood sugar gets low its kinda true.
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Permalink Reply by kimmcannally on -
The absolute scariest comment I have had was when my son J was diagnosed. Still in the hospital and he had a headache. The nurse said we would test his BG and if he was low, give him insulin!!! Thank God he was not low because I didn't know enough yet to realize what it would do to him. (it was the day before our training started, I think)
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