NAR stories about diabetes.

[Chris Hobson]

I just came across this at a forum that is mainly for retail workers and people in other public facing jobs. It allows them to vent about the unpleasant and stupid people they get to deal with day to day. This is a collection of stories about ignorance and idiocy specifically related to the subject of diabetes. Laugh or cry but enjoy anyway.

10 Wild Stories About People With Diabetes!

So here are ten stories we've pulled from our archives about those people and how they respond when faced with diabetic people! Enjoy... people!

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[Satan’s little helper]

The desert upselling one with the waitress? I normally just respond, “the food was fantastic. I’m just too stuffed for more.” Lol, the beeping? I was in a meeting ages back. Treated a hypo just prior to attending & snoozed it alongside the delay of the Libre started alarming again 20 minutes in. I ignored it as my boss continued to speak leaving my phone in my pocket. (Thinking it rude to start fiddling with it.) He stopped & asked who’s is that. I owned up mentioning it was the low glucose alarm. The first aid guy started panicking like “corporal Jones” as I assured him I’d eaten something just prior to the meeting. Quick grab the eye wash & bandages.sod it I’ll turn the phone off. 😉

 

[Chris Hobson]

Having read through the whole set I find some of it a bit funny but mostly it's a bit depressing. So much ignorance and stupidity all in one concentrated block. It's particularly worrying that there are people who have the condition and don't know the first thing about the illness and how best to deal with it. Setting out to educate myself was one of the first things that I did when I was first diagnosed and, twelve years on, I'm still learning.

 

[Satan’s little helper]

Having read through the whole set I find some of it a bit funny but mostly it's a bit depressing. So much ignorance and stupidity all in one concentrated block. It's particularly worrying that there are people who have the condition and don't know the first thing about the illness and how best to deal with it. Setting out to educate myself was one of the first things that I did when I was first diagnosed and, twelve years on, I'm still learning.

I don't think it's just diabetes. I once saw an interview by Richard Madley with David Blunket. Cringeworthy as he asked how DB knows what a ball is?