trophywench
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I once had a conversation with my practice nurse at the time - herself a T1 diabetic! - explaining that the ONLY reason I had approx. one quarter of a teaspoon of sugar on my one Weetabix in a morning was to just nudge the carbs for brekky up just that tiny bit, cos otherwise without completely changing what I ate for brekkie (which had to be quick, easily consumed and guaranteed to work) before I rushed out and drove 20 miles in rush hour Birmingham traffic for work, the insulin I was using at the time would make me hypo before I got there. Otherwise I wouldn't do that. (This was before more modern insulins and expert carb counting)
She went berserk - shouting at me in NO uncertain terms that a diabetic could never, never , NEVER eat another grain of sugar as long as they lived!
I said well, that's weird then - most 'people' say these days that yes you can, in some circumstances - Who ARE these people? she demanded, 'Tell me their names - and I'll SOON tell them they are absolutely wrong!'
OK said I. 'Professor M for starters - he's a teaching Professor at the QE (that's B'ham Uni Medical School LOL) and he was my old consultant, then also you'll need to contact my current one, Paul N, and of course the British Diabetic Association - but I'm awfully sorry, I'm afraid I can't tell you the name of the person there you'd need to contact, for this.'
I refused to go and see her again after that - and told the GP 'with a special interest in D' exactly why, the next time I saw him. he didn't say a word, just sighed and shook his head! LOL He's no expert in T1 himself - but he does have a brain! Funnily enough that nursie isn't there now ....... been replaced by others who all live on the same planet and don't claim to know too much about T1 but do understand it isn't easy and it's tedious - and always enquire if I need any help since they too have access to more expert people now, if their patients need it LOL Whole caboodle is much better organised than it was, in my part of the world.
She went berserk - shouting at me in NO uncertain terms that a diabetic could never, never , NEVER eat another grain of sugar as long as they lived!
I said well, that's weird then - most 'people' say these days that yes you can, in some circumstances - Who ARE these people? she demanded, 'Tell me their names - and I'll SOON tell them they are absolutely wrong!'
OK said I. 'Professor M for starters - he's a teaching Professor at the QE (that's B'ham Uni Medical School LOL) and he was my old consultant, then also you'll need to contact my current one, Paul N, and of course the British Diabetic Association - but I'm awfully sorry, I'm afraid I can't tell you the name of the person there you'd need to contact, for this.'
I refused to go and see her again after that - and told the GP 'with a special interest in D' exactly why, the next time I saw him. he didn't say a word, just sighed and shook his head! LOL He's no expert in T1 himself - but he does have a brain! Funnily enough that nursie isn't there now ....... been replaced by others who all live on the same planet and don't claim to know too much about T1 but do understand it isn't easy and it's tedious - and always enquire if I need any help since they too have access to more expert people now, if their patients need it LOL Whole caboodle is much better organised than it was, in my part of the world.