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The doctors and nurses who sit in judgement at my diabetic clinic have the easiest jobs in the world.
I wish I could sit and talk sh** and get paid for it with no recourse.
This is why I've stopped going to any appointments,they wind me up with their bull
 
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A good consultant is worth their weight in gold @spell Mine is great. There are also two or three DSNs that I get on really well with and trust.

Are there other hospitals you could go to? Or do you think maybe the problem isn’t your team? If you were your consultant/DSN, what would you say to a patient like you? What would help you?
 
spell said:
The doctors and nurses who sit in judgement at my diabetic clinic have the easiest jobs in the world.
I wish I could sit and talk sh*t and get paid for it with no recourse.
This is why I've stopped going to any appointments,they wind me up with their bull
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I had one like this last time, badly affected my mental health and diabetes management. I normally get someone else though so I’m going to my next appointment (well it’s a phone call) and crossing my fingers that I get the nice one.

Do you get the same one every time? If not then go and hope you get someone better. If it is the same one, try ringing and asking to be switched to someone else?

I once had to switch hospitals because they were all as bad as each other. To do that I went to GP and asked for a referral to another hospital (I specified which, it’s one with a good reputation nationally) and the GP sorted that out.
 
I've always found the consultants to be well informed, helpful with a good attitude. Nurses are a whole different animal. I don't know why they behave the way they do. Some say it's because nurses no longer fill the nursing roll since it became an academic qualification focusing on a degree rather than assisting the patient and doctors.

I moved hospital cos the attitude of the nurses was that appalling. Why get into nursing if you don't have a caring bone in your body? I've found them to be uninterested, bored and un caring. If you happen to also have mental health problems (on top of diabetes), seeing one of these nurses wouldn't do you any good at all.

My ideal nurse would be gentle, caring, considerate, thoughtful, well informed, kind, supportive, reliable with a good attitude. Unfortunately these minimums are rarely found these days.

One thing for sure is, I could never socialise or work with any of these bad apples. They'd eat away at your soul.
 
Inka said:
A good consultant is worth their weight in gold @spell Mine is great. There are also two or three DSNs that I get on really well with and trust.

Are there other hospitals you could go to? Or do you think maybe the problem isn’t your team? If you were your consultant/DSN, what would you say to a patient like you? What would help you?
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A patient like me. Meaning.....
 
spell said:
A patient like me. Meaning.....
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You’re a hypothetical someone who’s unhappy with their team. You don’t wish to engage with them. How could this team change in a way that would make you want to engage? What are they doing wrong? How would you act if the positions were reversed?

You say your team is bad - what would make them good?
 
spell said:
The doctors and nurses who sit in judgement at my diabetic clinic have the easiest jobs in the world.
I wish I could sit and talk sh*t and get paid for it with no recourse.
This is why I've stopped going to any appointments,they wind me up with their bull
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So as you are on a pump, how do you manage to keep it as a requirement for a pump is attending a pump clinic?
 
Sorry you aren’t finding your appointments helpful @spell :(

Nice to see you posting again though! How did the recovery go after your recent surgery? Are you fully recovered now? Was the surgery successful?

Hope you can find a way to make your appointments a more positive experience. Have you said that you don’t find them helpful?
 
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Sorry you aren’t finding your appointments helpful @spell :(

Nice to see you posting again though! How did the recovery go after your recent surgery? Are you fully recovered now? Was the surgery successful?

Hope you can find a way to make your appointments a more positive experience. Have you said that you don’t find them helpful?
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spell said:
Wish so much I had taken my chances with just the stent.
Physical recovery is about 20% there.
Mental recovery is 1000% worse
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Ah dude! That really sucks. I’m sorry.

I’m sure it was the right decision though. Hang in there as your recovery continues and look after yourself.
 
I tend to agree that it doesn’t get easier with time @spell I find Type 1 very wearing. However, what you said in your other thread - about punishing yourself - makes me wonder if the mental effort of that punishment is making the diabetes more intrusive.

For example, if you just did ‘good enough’ with the diabetes, would that actually require less thought? Eg always have two Weetabix and milk for breakfast (or whatever) and whack in X amount of bolus. That way you’d keep reasonable control without too much thought. Same for lunch - a sandwich plus whatever, and then keep your evening meal at a certain level of carbs for which you knew the bolus. That would remove a lot of thought and doing your bolus would be a bit more like getting a bowl out for your cereal rather than calculating and thinking too much.
 
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