I find it funny that people who want this to be private are happy to response and make it more public. HAHAHA!!!
Because of attitudes like the grouchy woman has about diabetics will always make diabetes seem like something we did to our selves and not a condition that happened to us. What kind of manners does this woman have telling somebody how to act when they have diabetes and they are have a diabetic momment. Totally unreal!
blah blah blah blah…I didn’t do anything to her. go to the link and write the editor… if you are so charged up. 
She has a right to be ignorant this is true. but from the darkness there should be light. Any way i rather find out what the groom is going to do. I was in a similar situation and I dumped the guy because of his attitude toward my diabetes.
is that the groom?
a little different for taste!
Liam Gallagher of Oasis, renowned for public debauchery and telling old farts (disclaimer, I may very well. be an old fart…) to ■■■■ off!
Leaving the Diabetes aside, this is a difference of generations! The older ones never discuss health issues out in the open. When I was first Dx, my grandparents never said anything out loud (They were from Ireland). In those generations things like that were really personal and they expected you to be prepared for just about everything.
Aside from that I think that this lady really doesn’t want her son to marry her. It maybe diabetes or it just maybe a just plain dislike of each other!
There are diabetics who draw attention to themselves with their diabetes and a person who’s had diabetes for awhile SHOULD be prepared when taking a long walk to the beach. The fact that the bride to be posted this private email on the web is actually proof that she draws attention to herself.
None of us were there for the weekend in question. The young lady might well have been a terror. I’m not going to cut her slack just because she’s part of the tribe.
Terry
I did wonder what it was that was wrong with the daughter-in-law to be! I had an inkling, but did not know for sure. Will definitely be writing to her if I can find an address!
I am glad that you did not crash when you heard about this!
We have not heard about this part of the story, but this woman is ignorant and snobbish to the nth degree and needs some education - soonest!
It could all be an urban myth.
I wonder that myself.
Tried to find it on Snopes but didnt know what to look up!
I hope it is.
Christalyn,
This story has been all over the UK media but none of the mainstream news media included the details about the daughter-in-law to be being a diabetic. This now makes me see a silly tabloid story in a rather different light.
I can see how certain things I do or have to do as a person on MDI might be misinterpreted as lack of manners, but in that situation I’d also try to explain exactly what I was doing and why I have to do it - hopefully this would not be interpreted as drawing attention to myself? I test 20 times a day and if I am a houseguest, some of that is going to be in front of other people. Is that drawing attention to myself?
And yes, I am ‘positively allergic’ to certain foods, in that there is no way I can eat more than a mouthful and maintain stable blood sugars. As a hostess, I make every reasonable accommodation to guests’ dietary preferences. That is called good manners! If I was that daughter in law, I would be very happy to show the mother in law my blood glucose meter readings to prove to her that some foods really are problematic.
I can also see how there might be circumstances where I was unable to wait for other people but had to start eating some carb first if my blood sugar was low. This did happen to me once. But every other person around that table was a decent human being and told me to just do what I have to do, plus someone went and got me some water as well.
I am with you on this but i don’t think this grouchy woman would have cared about the struggle and maintain of being diabetic. As diabetics, we should be tired of hiding in closets to check ourselves. I have seen people actually change their babies diapers in public at a restaurant which should be done in a restrooms.
This woman should be able to accept the young lady for who she is and what ever ailments that comes with it.
I am not sure about the media in the UK, but if you go to the link I have provided they have a copy of the letter in which she does state the young lady is diabetic.
I posted the link to the article that was told by the radio station that I heard it from.; gawker.com
come on Terry!!! I just get real defensive when non diabetics act like it is a walk in the park to have diabetes because we aren’t dragging on the floor with IV bag. There is nothing wrong with a little tolerance.
I know! I have trouble with getting Type 2’s to share their experiences with their family. Its only when they are going blind and a foot need to be amputated is when they want to share. By that time its too late.
This not a shadow disease just like breast cancer and AIDS are not in the shadows any more.
oopppsss! sorry!! not up on my UK bands. I still listen to the brothers johnson!
If it’s phony, Snopes will snoopy it out!
What is the link, I am fascinated (and from the UK). I have had some derogatory remarks from non-diabetics about diabetics, but none as bad as this seems!