"...IF YOU HAD EATEN THE GREEN BEANS FOR LUNCH, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE GONE LOW..." said one of the nurses with the crash cart team when they called "Code Blue" on me, not because somebody put the short acting insulin in the IV bag instead... I was to blame, because I failed to eat the boiled to death "SUGARY" (SSI) green beans poured from the can...
Oh my fav is when when ppl try to explain how diet soda isnât better for you than regular. I kinda just give them the -_____- face and sarcastically respond that they are right if I donât take sugar into consideration.
People still think itâs the Lente/R/NPH days and I need to eat every 3 hours or Iâm going to pass out. I like to eat though, and sometimes that gets me out of things I donât want to do at work or otherwise, so sometimes I let them think thatâŚ
I once had a doctor say to me âyou donât look diabeticâ, I mean you just donât expect that kind of ignorance from a doctor! I think even she was embarrassed with her statement by the time it had come out of her mouth.
Oh I have to add one more, this is me venting now! I have one drama queen in my life who will respond with âoh my God you need to eat, are you going to collapseâ every f***ing time she hears my pump beep or sees me take out my meter, it drives me nuts! I feel she is not worth the energy it would take to educate her so I just grit my teeth!
WOW. Just WOW. I would have let that manager know in no uncertain terms (without anyone else present of course), that if that happened and I didnât die, when I was done with him/her that their mom wouldnât recognize them.
Oh my goodness, you guys!! Just yesterday a young woman at a clientâs saw some tubing poking out of my blouse & asked what it was. I showed her my pump. âInsulin?!â She gasped. âI didnât know you had the bad diabetes!!â I had never heard that one until i read your posts & i almost burst out laughing Bless 'er heart!
I had a doctor talk to me about my medical history, when I said I was Diabetic he said âsugar diabetes or the other oneâ. Wow, I was floored that a currently practising physician would a) use a term that has not been used in decades and b) forget the name of both types of Diabetes. That was the one and only time I saw him
the one that i get a lot is get well soon. its not like i have a flu or anything. its a chronic condition. another that i get is, does the shots hurt? um yes they do but you get use to it. or i could never prick my finger for blood, doesnt that bother you. no it doesnt. so i get a lot of dumb questions and comments