How do you feel.........

[sasha1]

i do believe that duk have been inundated with requests for memberships to be cancelled. i just hope this is the wake up call they need to issue the correct response now

I've cancelled Nathans membership...going to donate the money instead to JDRF

Heidi
🙂

 

[insulinaddict09]

I've cancelled Nathans membership...going to donate the money instead to JDRF

Heidi
🙂

Well done Heidi , us "ADDICTS " have to stick together lol 🙂

 

[sasha1]

Well done Heidi , us "ADDICTS " have to stick together lol 🙂

Sure do hun.......

Heidi
🙂

 

[Lorraine]

I received my copy of Balance today and agree with what has been said on here. The ex nurse doesn't even inject so how on earth does she know what it is like. I inject wherever I am and if that means at a restaurant table then I will. I lso inject during a lesson at school if need be, usually the 1st lesson after lunch because I have been nattering so much I forget to do it in the staffroom. The students know about my diabetes and most are very interested. It even helped once when I was covering a biology lesson that included diabetes.

 

[MarcLister]

i do believe that duk have been inundated with requests for memberships to be cancelled. i just hope this is the wake up call they need to issue the correct response now

I hope this is true about membership cancellations. I also hope that DUK realise the mess they are in and try to sort out the damage before its too late.

 

[Caroline]

Offend or please, I think this is just one persons opinion. It has got all of us talking, and it is probably high time awareness was raised for the need to inject.

The law now is such that (for example) downs syndrome children are not hidden away, and people who are less able to cope physically are catered for, so what's wrong with insulin dependent diabetics being catered for.

I wouldn't advocate you waving the needle about and saying look everyone I am going to inject, but it is good manners to ask the people around you if they mind.

It is natural to breast feed babies, but there is still alot of stigma attached to breast feeding babies, although some places now provide clean places for nursing mothers fo feed their babies discreetly. I don't see whay there can't be places for any one who needs to self adminster any kind of injection on medical grounds to have the same rights if they want them.

 

[Northerner]

...I wouldn't advocate you waving the needle about and saying look everyone I am going to inject, but it is good manners to ask the people around you if they mind...

Nor would I, but this is precisely what the nurse, with her 'in yer face' comment, accuses all insulin users of doing. Her view is that, however discreet you are and whether or not you have got the consent of those around you, she must never, under any circumstances, have to catch sight of a person injecting, because it is a filthy, sleazy act of weakness by drug-addled scum (I think that's the jist of what she was trying to say!🙂)

 

[Caroline]

Nor would I, but this is precisely what the nurse, with her 'in yer face' comment, accuses all insulin users of doing. Her view is that, however discreet you are and whether or not you have got the consent of those around you, she must never, under any circumstances, have to catch sight of a person injecting, because it is a filthy, sleazy act of weakness by drug-addled scum (I think that's the jist of what she was trying to say!🙂)

It is probaly time any one who needs to inject for medical reasons (not just diabetics on insulin) had a place to do it. There are now baby feeding and bay changing rooms, so why not a place for taking ones medication? Anyone with a genuin need would be happy to provide proof in the form of a to who it may concern letter or something of a similar nature.

 

[katie]

I personally wouldnt use a 'special' area to inject! It takes two second to do under the table and nobody even notices usually.

 

[Northerner]

I personally wouldnt use a 'special' area to inject! It takes two second to do under the table and nobody even notices usually.

Yes, I think that people just need to be more tolerant and understanding, not shunting us off to some special place and making us really stand out as 'different' and disrupting our enjoyment of our meal. I wouldn't expect someone with an asthma inhaler to leave their table and that's much more visible than, as katie says, injecting under the table (I wonder how the nurse would feel if insulin inhalers became a commonplace replacement for injections?).

 

[mikep1979]

i also would never in my life go into a "special area" to inject. why should i??? am i that hideous that i need to hide away??? do i have some really awfull disease that makes me look grotesque?? no i dont i have type 1 diabetes and as other have said if your looking hard enough to see us inject then you must wanna see something. also if your looking that hard then why the hell ARE you looking at me like that????

not being confrontational at all over this, but why should we be treated different??? like northerner says you dont object to an asthmatic taking their inhalers at the table. nor do you object to someone swallowing pills at a table. i will never change my habits over this and i dont think we ever should.