Annie86
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Hi All
Had a slightly off putting experience i want to share with you all. Can you let me know if Im being sensitive!
Out to dinner with the inlaws to be last night and my sister in law told me not to inject at the table as it would make people uncomfortable.
My first thought was, ok fair enough but as I was doing my injection in the toilets I felt quite embarrassed and angry. Its not like I whip my stomach out and do show and tell with my injections!! And making people uncomfortable? How about having to do the injections for uncomfortable!!! Grrr!
I guess im still a bit miffed. I felt embarrassed for the first time in 5 years about something I really shouldnt have.
If someone is uncomfortable of course I wont be rude but felt the sister in law was embarrassed by it as opposed to uncomfortable.
Sensitive or not?
Hi @Lynz84.
I don't feel you're being over sensitive at all. I had a similar experience several years ago when I was on injections rather than the pump where my friend asked me not to do it at the table as people were watching and staring.
It is embarrassing and makes a far bigger deal of it than it ought to be. Embarrassment is obviously going to take a part as well as anger and to some extent discomfort of being in that particular persons company.
Alongside this is the hygiene factor of injecting in a public toilet. We wouldn't ask them to go and take their tablets elsewhere or such like.
Is it worth trying to speak to her separately to ask why she felt this way and explain the way her comments made you feel?
I have never been and neither has my friend ever made a show of giving ourselves our insulin whether in public or private. You did not ask for diabetes or indeed to inject, but it is something we have to do to survive. No one has the right to make you feel insecure or embarrassed which we do enough to ourselves without their help.
Have a quiet word and try to resolve it to prevent future situations such as this, but keep in your heart that you weren't over sensitive or in the wrong.
Best of luck and let us know if you reach some form of a resolve
Anna xxx