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Diabetes Bingo!

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Northerner

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Play along, just print out the card then cross off each misinformed comment you hear! :D

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Big smiles at some of the comments ! I don't know if its me 🙂🙂
 
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Brilliant. I can tick most of them off with just comments from my family 😉
 
I got the junkie comment yesterday - admittedly though it was in jest from a friend - because I was brazenly walking along the road with a full sharps bin which I was taking to the GP surgery to drop off for disposal. We did have a bit of a laugh about the fact that if I was on illegal drugs I probably wouldn't be quite so blatant about it, in fact the chances are I wouldn't really care whether my needles were disposed of safely and I probably wouldn't even have a sharps bin... 😱 :D

The one I most commonly get is "she will grow out of it won't she?" (I wish!), and a friend from a different class at school asked if my daughter could go to play at her house. I said yes I'll speak to your dad (who probably didn't even know that there is anything different about her). I explained to her dad that there are things he needs to know about and he said "has she got the bad kind of diabetes?". Er... Which one's that then?! Sadly no arrangement has yet been made for my daughter to go and play with that friend, I wonder why :(
 
House! 🙂

The "you don't look like one" or the "you really can't tell" in relation to being partially sighted are always welcome comments 🙄
 
I've had almost all of those already! My personal favourite is "it could be worse", it's almost as annoying as the "there are plenty of people worse off than you" which Einstein thought that acknowledging that some folk are worse off makes me feel any better?
 
I have had a lot of them. I just smile. I have also had "you are lucky you only have it mildly and it will go away if you stop eating so much sugar" 🙂
 
robert@fm said:
By that, they probably mean "it could be me". :D
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You're probably right, because it's usually followed by "oh God I couldn't inject myself every day" 🙂
 
Your type 1, are you sure as only children get that?
 
The other annoying one is "ooh, I don't know how you cope..."

Erm... Well I haven't exactly got much choice have I, sh*t happens sometimes and you have to just grit your teeth and get on with it as best you can :(

Yes I've had tears etc and it was a hell of a learning curve but after 2 years I finally feel like I know what I'm doing most of the time...
 
KookyCat said:
I got that one my first week in, from a GP 😱
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One of our Type 1 members got told that, since he had turned 40, he was now Type 2 - by a doctor!!! 😱

Here's a poem I wrote about it:

Mr Jenkins? Your appointment has been rearranged,
And since you’ll have turned 40, your diagnosis has changed!
We know that we told you that you were Type 1,
But now you’ve got older, I’m afraid that is wrong!

Type 1 diabetes affects only the young,
And you’ve got a foot on the middle-aged rung –
On the ladder of life, I’m afraid you’re too high,
And your fountain of youth is decidedly dry!

So, because you’re too old, you’ve been reclassified,
There’s no point in complaining, though many have tried!
You’ll be very pleased to learn that you’re a Type 2,
That’ll be cheaper for us, if not better for you!

You won’t need to test, so you won’t need those strips,
And you’ll no longer suffer those low sugar dips!
We’re withdrawing your insulin, you’ll be diet-controlled…
What’s that? Don’t blame me sir – it’s because you’re too old! :D
 
Northerner said:
One of our Type 1 members got told that, since he had turned 40, he was now Type 2 - by a doctor!!! 😱

Here's a poem I wrote about it:

Mr Jenkins? Your appointment has been rearranged,
And since you’ll have turned 40, your diagnosis has changed!
We know that we told you that you were Type 1,
But now you’ve got older, I’m afraid that is wrong!

Type 1 diabetes affects only the young,
And you’ve got a foot on the middle-aged rung –
On the ladder of life, I’m afraid you’re too high,
And your fountain of youth is decidedly dry!

So, because you’re too old, you’ve been reclassified,
There’s no point in complaining, though many have tried!
You’ll be very pleased to learn that you’re a Type 2,
That’ll be cheaper for us, if not better for you!

You won’t need to test, so you won’t need those strips,
And you’ll no longer suffer those low sugar dips!
We’re withdrawing your insulin, you’ll be diet-controlled…
What’s that? Don’t blame me sir – it’s because you’re too old! :D
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That made me giggle, I'm waiting for the GP to send me the letter :D I think if I remember rightly I think I told her she was welcome to ring my consultant and tell him he was wrong. I was feeling quite fraught!
 
I've heard many over the years but the best comment was a couple of weeks ago from a possibly T2 colleague. She saw my pump and asked a couple of questions then said she couldn't change cannulas, and that she used to inject but stopped because she didn't like them. Nice to have a choice I suppose!
 
A nurse at the eye clinic asked me if I was going to give my pump back so someone else could have it as I had such good control now 🙄
 
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