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@tim2000s Some people just don't get lchf they are fixated on sugar and not carbs and just won't listen that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying but we have to realise educating people against the orthodox view is going to be difficult but I will tell any one who cares to listen if I ever get to a clinic I will do as you suggest.
 
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about going to clinics and evangelising, chucking stuff down people's throats. I'm talking about simply breaking barriers and encouraging communication between PWD and if that leads on to discussions on strategies to deal with it so be it!
 
tim2000s said:
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about going to clinics and evangelising, chucking stuff down people's throats. I'm talking about simply breaking barriers and encouraging communication between PWD and if that leads on to discussions on strategies to deal with it so be it!
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The evangelisers I would not want to engage with. Would not do that to others either. Nothing worse than smart a**e when you could be feeling a bit vulnerable and intimidated already. Best to wait for someone to ask about how you manage your D, than assume they want to know.
 
Pipp said:
The evangelisers I would not want to engage with. Would not do that to others either. Nothing worse than smart a**e when you could be feeling a bit vulnerable and intimidated already. Best to wait for someone to ask about how you manage your D, than assume they want to know.
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That's why I find that being seriously obese still is helpful in that particular situation. People will chat to me as they don't feel intimidated. They can see I don't know it all just by looking at me lol but they do listen to what I have learnt and share their own experiences with me too.
 
No the evangelical route is not for me well not any more that is been there done that got the T Shirt.
But I have found that for some inexplicable reason people quite often talk to me in those sort of situations so I would only broach a subject if the conversation went that way. I for one would not be seeking converts only to inform. Brow beating people is not the way.
 
I treat any visit to the docs (whether for a diabetic appointment or anything else) as a forum visit. Just like here the people are strangers who I am never likely to meet again. I say Hello and see what develops. I was once waiting for my Aunt who was having an XRay for a broken wrist and a man who was similar in size to me started chatting about weight and how to lose it. He was diabetic too. He didn't like wholemeal bread much but dutifully ate it because that's what he had been told to do by his DN. It's not preaching when you are telling people something they want to hear :D
 
noblehead said:
Personally I'd rather be left alone when waiting on appointments and wouldn't appreciate strangers trying to make polite conversation, I'm sure there many more people like this so you do have to tread carefully.
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In my experience the ones who want to talk want to tell you their life history so no I prefer not to get into a conversation in the waiting room
 
Well I like people strangers or not and quite often their life stories are interesting every one has a tale to tell not just the ones who have their biographies published but that's just me and not for every one I suppose.
 
Time for a little comic relief...

 
JohnEGreen said:
Well I like people strangers or not and quite often their life stories are interesting every one has a tale to tell not just the ones who have their biographies published but that's just me and not for every one I suppose.
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A stranger, could just be a friend you have not yet met.
 
tim2000s said:
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about going to clinics and evangelising, chucking stuff down people's throats. I'm talking about simply breaking barriers and encouraging communication between PWD and if that leads on to discussions on strategies to deal with it so be it!
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A simple hi or hello is a great ice breaker, or okay if I sit here, have you been before, this is my first time? that sort of thing. If they want to chat, great, if not, then try someone else next time. But, I have never been to a focus group before, but chatted to a few different people at the hospital diabetes clinics.
 
Robinredbreast said:
A simple hi or hello is a great ice breaker, or okay if I sit here, have you been before, this is my first time? that sort of thing. If they want to chat, great, if not, then try someone else next time. But, I have never been to a focus group before, but chatted to a few different people at the hospital diabetes clinics.
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I normally just stick my head round the door & ask "is this Alcoholics Anonymous?"

If someone says yes? I know I'm in the wrong building....
 
Last time I was at clinic, I ended up speaking to another t1 who was telling me her life story, quite interesting & made appt go by a lot quicker.

Speaking of which, appt today so best get my bum in gear!!
 
That was easy for me today. In the clinic for 2 minutes and started speaking to someone who it turns out is my mum's cousin lol. Small world.
 
I see my diabetes nurse in the local GP surgery. Now that I think about it, people don't chat to strangers in the waiting room. I live in a very friendly place and strangers are always striking up conversations with each others, just not in the doctors' waiting room it seems. (A gentleman in Tesco the other day asked me how to make a chicken curry :wideyed:)
 
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