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 Darrell on -
My family and I were having dinner with a friend recently. During the middle of the meal, out of nowhere, my friend looked at my 8-year old daughter and said “open your mouth…a little wider.” After a brief visual inspection of daughter’s teeth, he looked at my wife and I and said “no cavities?"
The very next night (I am not making this up) my fam and I had dinner with a young married couple. During the middle of the meal, the husband looked at my daughter and said “open your mouth.” He too was surprised by her lack of cavities.
A few weeks ago I brought my daughter into my office. My boss saw her brand new Deltec Cozmo at her side and said “Hey, I’ve never seen your new cell phone that’s attached to your kidneys."
My daughter thinks my friends and coworkers are weird.
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Permalink Reply by Cynthia F. on -
I went for an appointment yesterday
This grossly overweight woman sits down next to me, points to my pump and says really loudly You couldn't handle taking a few pills a day?
I told her, No, Ma'am. I am a type 1 diabetic, I require insulin to live.
she replies that's because you can't control your mouth and your mother fed you trash when you were younger.
By that time the nurse comes out and tells the loudmouth She's doing better than you, she's half the size of you and has twice the brains. The loudmouth turned red and left.
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Permalink Reply by debb on -
now that's one heck of a nurse. i want her for my nurse. where do i find one like her? did you slip her a $20.00 for being so fantastic?
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Permalink Reply by Cynthia F. on
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Military base hospital :)
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Permalink Reply by Domo! on -
burrrrrn, some people are so mean! And some people are so nice, like that nurse. Sometimes you need the slap of reality, so poo on that mean lady
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Permalink Reply by Linda G on -
HOLEY MOLEY Cynthia....I'm always astounded by the sheer STUPIDITY and CRASS of some people!
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Permalink Reply by debb on
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the thing is that woman will take it as a slap in her face and complain to everyone how mean the nurse was to her and not get that the nurse was right. she could even file a compliant agaist her.
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Permalink Reply by Jenna F on -
"SHOOT UP!"
it was funny at first, but got old fast. REAL fast.
AHH! and in 7th grade when I went on some class picnic, I was required to have a cluster nurse with me, and she followed me EVERYWHERE. And she'd ask me how I felt every 30 minutes. When I was perfectly capable to take care of myself. My parents even told the school that, but they said it was a "requirement". That's the year everyone found out about me. And it wasn't the way I wanted to tell people..
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Permalink Reply by MelissaBL on -
I was a chaperone this weekend on a high school trip and had a similar experience with another chaperone who was assigned to be my roommate - a woman I didn't know. She wouldn't stop asking me what my blood sugar was; I would always reply with "I'm fine. Thanks." On Day 2, we were on a dinner cruise and I was sitting at the end of a table chatting with my director's wife when I felt something under my elbow. This lady was bending down, lifting my elbow, to press buttons on my CGM (clipped on my waistband) to find out what my blood sugar was!!!!!!!!!!! I jumped and said "excuse me, can I help you?" and she said "just wanted to see how you were doing!" Day 3, I had to point blank ask this woman to lay off, to stop asking me my BG, to stop offering me candy, and to stop commenting on my beeping devices.
UGH.
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