the 'un-educated'

[DanW81]

i found this quite amusing, not really sure in what way, maybe a suprised way?

today at work a guy had brought in some indian sweets and asked me to try them, he said they were very, very sugery, so i said no. later on i thought id have one with my lunch, so went and eat it (it was horrible btw!) and then he said, "there you go, told u it was very sugery. you can just keep eating these sweets from now on, no need to take those injections anymore".

When i put him straight that it is the other way round, i would need to take them even more if i carried on eating his sweets, he couldnt believe it! All along he thought that i was taking them to increase my sugar, not to lower it!

guess it shows still how little people who dont have to worry about it actually know about, suprised me a bit

 

[Steff]

Gosh Dan yes thats the way people think i guess if they dont have diabetes to worry about, the amount of times I have had to tell some one usually within my family no i cant have that or no i best not it aint for me, my other halves mum was the worse she thought i could get away with just eating the diabetic choccie all the time and thinking it would be good for me.

 

[falcon123]

There are two things that constantly amaze me.

The first is that many people think it is "sugar diabetes". They seem to think eating some chocolate (for a hypo) is comparable to a suicide attempt! Then they often cannot understand that we are talking carbohydrates and have to limit bread, potatoes, fruit, etc.

The second is that twice recently after I have injected people that should know better (long term acquaintances) cannot seem to understand that I have to eat in say 20 -30 minutes and cannot delay for a few hours.

I despair at times!