Diabetic mother-of-two is kicked out of McDonald's for injecting herself with insulin

[Redkite]

You could well be right it simply being sloppy journalism, of course. But I'll still continue my one-person boycott!

In fact you might be the one who's right - I've just heard back from my Dad. Both he and Mum went through today's printed copy of the Daily Mail and there is no sign of any such article, neither the original version or the corrected one! So perhaps some marketing executive was bored yesterday and posted that nonsense to get us all going!

You can get back on your soapbox 😉

 

[yorksman]

Do you mean to tell me that the Stranglers' song "Golden Brown" was all about heroin? Another illusion shattered.....🙂

Contrast Golden Brown:

"Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown"

with Ebeneezer Goode

"He's refined, sublime, he makes you feel fine
Though very much maligned and misunderstood
But if you know Eezer he's a real crowd pleaser
He's ever so good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"

Neither are as poetic as Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds though.

 

[Redkite]

Contrast Golden Brown:

"Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown"

with Ebeneezer Goode

"He's refined, sublime, he makes you feel fine
Though very much maligned and misunderstood
But if you know Eezer he's a real crowd pleaser
He's ever so good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"

Neither are as poetic as Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds though.

😱 I always thought Golden Brown was a woman!

 

[yorksman]

in my area a lot of people 'do drugs' so everyone injecting gets tarred with the same brush which is sad

It's also the tendency for people injecting to use their needles as weapons if challenged and the danger of Hep C or HIV infection. Quite a shock if you walk out of your office and into the loo only to find someone who shouldn't be there shooting up. The problem that employers and landlords face is that they have to ensure that the place is safe and the old adage 'better safe than sorry' is what they adhere to. My landlord had to put locks on the entrance to the building where I had my office. The result was that my customers could not get in to see me. I had no option but to leave. I never even saw anyone shooting up. Apparantly, one needle was found on one occasion.

 

[yorksman]

😱 I always thought Golden Brown was a woman!

LOL, no, that's Jackie Brown.

 

[yorksman]

An interesting notion Mike! 😱 Wouldn't put it past them - if they are so blas? about accuracy, then they clearly have no great desire for credibility and trust in their journalism

Dog bites man is not a story. Man bites dog is a story. Agreement doesn't sell, contention sells. Everything about journalism is designed to sell a story and if there isn't a story, take an every day event and turn it into a story. Just ask the question, 'are you a paedophile?' and when the answer comes back, 'no, of course not' you can print 'so and so denies being a paedophile'. It's good copy.

The journo involved is clearly not fully familiar with her craft. The headline is too long and should read something like, 'Diabetic in Junkie Scare', 'Diabetic Eating Junk Food', 'McDonald's Diabetes Problem' or something designed to allow the story teller to tell the story that they want to tell. What actually happened is simply uninteresting.

 

[PhilT]

Interesting I thought we injected insulin to lower our BG's not the other way about and since when have we used EpiPens to inject insulin?

 

[DeusXM]

There's another issue here which I've just realised has been hinted at but most of us seem to have missed.

Read the story again - either the original or the corrected version:

Sarah Pike, 36, ordered a Big Mac from the fast-food chain last Friday and administered insulin to reduce her blood sugar level before tucking into her meal.

But when staff spotted her injecting herself they told her to leave the premises because they believed she was using hard drugs.

Can you see it yet?

That's right. Someone with a load of bolus insulin on board (presumably calculated to match the carbs in front of them) was asked to leave and essentially prevented from eating.

This could have been extremely serious as this is precisely how to induce a very, very bad hypo. This could have been an emergency services case. One can only assume either Ms Pike had her food in a bag already or the staff were good enough to bag up food for her before kicking her out. Imagine if this happened in a proper sit-down restaurant? It doesn't bear thinking about.

 

[Cleo]

Very good point which I admit I missed !
What a bunch of muppets !! If this had happened in the US I'm sure she would have taken it further .... Completely unacceptable

 

[Redkite]

There's another issue here which I've just realised has been hinted at but most of us seem to have missed.

Read the story again - either the original or the corrected version:



Can you see it yet?

That's right. Someone with a load of bolus insulin on board (presumably calculated to match the carbs in front of them) was asked to leave and essentially prevented from eating.

This could have been extremely serious as this is precisely how to induce a very, very bad hypo. This could have been an emergency services case. One can only assume either Ms Pike had her food in a bag already or the staff were good enough to bag up food for her before kicking her out. Imagine if this happened in a proper sit-down restaurant? It doesn't bear thinking about.

You're right, this could have turned into a serious medical emergency