What's the joke

[leonS]

I walked into the Doctor's surgery and in response to his question told him that I thought that I had diabetes.

He thought that the most amusing thing that he had ever heard and almost fell off his chair laughing. I did NOT see the joke. I listed symptoms: loss of weight, unquenchable thirst, tendency to fall into a deep sleep from which it was difficult for other to wake me, and a positive test for sugar in the urine.

I demanded to know what else could cause these symptoms, and told him that if he could not produce an alternative diagnosis, he might think of a reason why I should not thump him on the end of the nose.

The tendency for laughter disapered and he asked if I could produce a urine sample. As I had drunk about a gallon since breakfast and it was before ten, the question was how many beaker fulls do you need.

The sample was given to an assistant who reapeared a few moments later waving a test tube containing a bright yellow liquid and gibbering in alarm "sugar in the urine!". The doctor told him to calm down and said it had been expected!

My diagnosis was agreed, as type 1, and I have been on insulin for 44 years now.

 

[Ljc]

Hello @leonS , welcome to the forum. I bet , (well I hope he did ) he took you more seriously after that.

 

[trophywench]

Welcome, Leon.

Two years prior to you, the Prophet of Doom aka Mom had already diagnosed me (aged 22, married just over 12 months and living 20 odd miles away by then) before I got to the GP surgery which I hadn't approached in much of a rush, just the first convenient after work appointment they had one Tuesday evening ….. Ooopsie, cos by Wednesday morning I was an inpatient at Kidderminster General.

And yeah re the urine sample - I was busting for the loo as per normal by that stage! LOL - and true, I'd have wanted to do exactly that to Dr J too at the time. Considering he was also an anaesthetist at said KGH - cos at that time shedloads of T2s were on insulin too - just maybe he actually had more experience with diabetes than a lot of GPs might?

We've seen some changes, haven't we!

Were you anything like me - where if the hospital had said they'd have to amputate a leg so that I could feel better I'd have said 'Where do I sign?' and let em do it cos I felt that ruddy lousy? Now - I'd rush home and get my husband's shotgun! LOL

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hello Leon and welcome to the forum.
Funny (Not) enough when Mum took me to the GP 54 years ago to tell him she thought I had diabetes he also laughed in her face. Told Mum she was a fussy over protective mother, but to put her mind at rest to bring in a urine sample when next passing, mum handed him one then and there. The GP closed the surgery and drove us both to the hospital stopping on the way to tell my Dad as he was on duty at the fire station.

As they say the rest is history. 🙂

 

[KARNAK]

Hi @leonS welcome to the forum.🙂 This was my response before the ambulance turned up .