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trophywench said:
Hee hee Rosy - we strive as parents to actually raise our offspring to be independent people - and we have no objection whatsoever supporting them both financially and emotionally, every way, whilst they do it. Simultaneously - we also go out to work commercially and work in and around the home and garden, whilst also providing the taxi service and all the other things which parenting includes. BUT - that was indeed, hopefully - our own choice to have the kids.

Having done all that - without getting much respite from it one way or the other - we have a BIT of partial respite without them - we have a bit of time still at work commercially and in and around the home - when we get a bit more money and time for us to use and enjoy together - to actually start to enjoy the actual fruits of all our labour, for all those years. Then we retire so a bit less income normally - but HEY!! - at LAST!! - both the time and the money can be OURS!!

If we do NOT become SKI-ers - then we're exceptionally weird !

Regards from
Jenny

(Two (step)daughters, one son-in-law, 7 grandkids (eldest 25, youngest 4), two great GKs - and you BET your sweet bippy, we're SKI-ing !)

😛 🙂
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I understand that parents that do the best for their children, I'm an auntie of two boys under 5, so I understand that a parent will put life and limb for their children to support them. It's just when we get older we push them away more for "Cramping" our style!!

I think a lot of my parents age are becoming SKI-ers which is not good, as they think have I got enough money left when I'm ill in the future as I spend it all on holidays etc.
 
Jonsi said:
Hi Rosy ...if having things in your pocket is a problem with work uniform etc. why not try a belt pack?? (I used to work in a Food factory and wasn't allowed anything in my pockets!) I use an Ascensia Blood Glucose kit and that comes in a neat little belt pack. For two packet tops off their Test Strips box they'll send you one free. You'd get your BG test kit and some Polos or Hypostop gel (Honey or Jam sachets are just as good) in there.
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I do have trousers that have pockets in them, so the pocket issue is not that, it''s the shop policy of not eating in the store as it gives a bad impression to customers, the same for supermarkets they can't just start eating the food on the selves unless they pay for it at the beginning or end of shift - I will have to talk to my manager about that. I would have enough room for my testing kit and dextrose in pockets hopefully!!
 
rosy_nic said:
shop policy of not eating in the store
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I think that's a reasonable accommodation that they should make for you, the alternative is to have an employee incapacitated on duty (which just does not look good for your customers). Another recommendation is that you are open about your D to your co-workers; without being a martyr, be frank & honest about what D is & possible complications.... They may notice you being a bit off before you do.
 
Seems fair enough to go somewhere out of sight of customers to test your blood and eat sweets. Keeping in your pocket does mean you have the items close to hand, not in a locker somewhere, for example.
 
rosy_nic said:
I do have trousers that have pockets in them, so the pocket issue is not that, it''s the shop policy of not eating in the store as it gives a bad impression to customers, the same for supermarkets they can't just start eating the food on the selves unless they pay for it at the beginning or end of shift - I will have to talk to my manager about that. I would have enough room for my testing kit and dextrose in pockets hopefully!!
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If you were to have to have a Dextrosol, or two (I have no idea how much you take for a hypo), exactly how long would you actually have it in your mouth? A minute? Less than a minute to crunch it and swallow? I have no idea, but as I understand it, when you're heading for hypo, or are hypo, you're priority having something quickly, that acts quickly, so it's hardly in your best interest spend as lot of time sucking on a toffee or the like.

I think Dextrosol and the like taste vile, so thankfully, I don't have to eat them.
 
Hi there, Rosy_Nic.🙂 I'm a teacher and was diagnosed at the start of the summer holiday, so I had 2 months to get my head around being diabetic before going back to work, which was a great help. When the new term started I found that work kept me sane and kept me going when I wasn't feeling well (they say starting insulin you'll feel much better immediately but I felt te-errible for the first 6 months). I found that during those 6 hours a day I forgot all about my diabetes and now it's just become part of the general fabric of daily life. It IS a bit daunting at first, but I'd encourage you to go back a.s.a.p. - normal life has to resume at some point! And try to find a new job if this one still sucks!🙄🙂
 
Martin Canty said:
I think that's a reasonable accommodation that they should make for you, the alternative is to have an employee incapacitated on duty (which just does not look good for your customers). Another recommendation is that you are open about your D to your co-workers; without being a martyr, be frank & honest about what D is & possible complications.... They may notice you being a bit off before you do.
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I will have a chat to my manager about accommodations for me, as they don't want a employee to incapacitated on duty which will not look good! I will be open about my condition to colleagues - and do not hope they called it a disease as that is one thing that gets me annoyed is people calling Diabetes a disease as my older brother says a disease you can cure a condition you can't! 🙂
 
Copepod said:
Seems fair enough to go somewhere out of sight of customers to test your blood and eat sweets. Keeping in your pocket does mean you have the items close to hand, not in a locker somewhere, for example.
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Yes a pocket is a good idea instead of my locker which is at the other end of the store, and has a coded door, so customers don't walk in there!
 
AndBreathe said:
If you were to have to have a Dextrosol, or two (I have no idea how much you take for a hypo), exactly how long would you actually have it in your mouth? A minute? Less than a minute to crunch it and swallow? I have no idea, but as I understand it, when you're heading for hypo, or are hypo, you're priority having something quickly, that acts quickly, so it's hardly in your best interest spend as lot of time sucking on a toffee or the like.

I think Dextrosol and the like taste vile, so thankfully, I don't have to eat them.
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I think from my paper work it's 5 tablets the same amount of jelly babies is 5 to treat a hypo (well that what Bucks NHS says) I would have to suck them before swallowing I don't know whether you chew them or not!

I have tropical flavour ones, so hopefully they will taste nicer than the oranges ones!
 
Bloden said:
Hi there, Rosy_Nic.🙂 I'm a teacher and was diagnosed at the start of the summer holiday, so I had 2 months to get my head around being diabetic before going back to work, which was a great help. When the new term started I found that work kept me sane and kept me going when I wasn't feeling well (they say starting insulin you'll feel much better immediately but I felt te-errible for the first 6 months). I found that during those 6 hours a day I forgot all about my diabetes and now it's just become part of the general fabric of daily life. It IS a bit daunting at first, but I'd encourage you to go back a.s.a.p. - normal life has to resume at some point! And try to find a new job if this one still sucks!🙄🙂
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Thank you for your reply - just out of curiosity what ages do you teach, as my sister-in-law is a teacher as well

I think work will keep my hopefully sane if the customers don't get to flustered as I will starting back when it's the school holidays and children will want to buy all the sweets in the shop!!

I will hopefully find a job soon that suits me 🙂
 
Hi everyone update from my GP - he has agreed with me that my Blood Sugars are good enough to have a phased return to work for the next month. I'm having a risk assment with my manager next Tuesday to see what adaptations they can make for me.

I also had my HA1BC results back so I have gone from 100 ish when diagnosed to 79!! Which is good news 🙂
 
rosy_nic said:
Hi everyone update from my GP - he has agreed with me that my Blood Sugars are good enough to have a phased return to work for the next month. I'm having a risk assment with my manager next Tuesday to see what adaptations they can make for me.

I also had my HA1BC results back so I have gone from 100 ish when diagnosed to 79!! Which is good news 🙂
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All sounds good Rosy well done 🙂
 
God work on the A1c, keep it up!!!
 
rosy_nic said:
I think from my paper work it's 5 tablets the same amount of jelly babies is 5 to treat a hypo (well that what Bucks NHS says) I would have to suck them before swallowing I don't know whether you chew them or not!

I have tropical flavour ones, so hopefully they will taste nicer than the oranges ones!
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You definitely need to chew them if they are Dextrosol or Lucozade tablets. 5 of them is 15g carbs which is what they recommend for a hypo, then you're meant to test again after 15 minutes to make sure it's worked, but I find it takes 20 minutes.
 
They're crumbly type tablets, so it's more like crunching into smaller pieces then swallowing. Tiny pieces virtually dissolve in your mouth. But it's pretty quick and easy to bite jelly babies into pieces small enough to swallow and they taste much nicer.
 
Radders said:
You definitely need to chew them if they are Dextrosol or Lucozade tablets. 5 of them is 15g carbs which is what they recommend for a hypo, then you're meant to test again after 15 minutes to make sure it's worked, but I find it takes 20 minutes.
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Yes your right @Radders I sort of remebered what my paper work from the hospital said it was about that
 
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