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Ever been asked to leave a shop or restaurant due to a hypo?

What an awful experience.

I will show this thread to my 18yo daughter who has a p/t job in a cafe and is clueless about T1/GD. She'll make sure it never happens to a customer on her shift. I would have cried all day if it had happened to me.
 
Is there a law that says that a cafe should allow someone to have their own drink if they are ill It may be difficult to take the cafe to court and win I would guess that the only winners would be the legal profession I agree that the OP was treated very badly by a very jobsworth woman but would it really help a pregnant mum to go down the line of bringing the law into this
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Ridiculous!!!
fortunately never happened to me, and have treated hypos in cafes with my bottle of lucozade before ordering. always amazed at peoples stupidity even after explaining things.

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Sorry I am a little confused here even though it is absolutely disgusting what happened. But why would this only happen to T1 or GD. I am type 2 and I have hypos so the education should be for all types of diabetes not just certain types


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Crimsonclient said:
Sorry I am a little confused here even though it is absolutely disgusting what happened. But why would this only happen to T1 or GD. I am type 2 and I have hypos so the education should be for all types of diabetes not just certain types


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Nobody said it could only happen to type 1, hypo awareness for all :)

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I just hope that even if she still didn't understand what had happened that she at least googled it for some further info when she finished her shift. Show was a grown woman in her 40s-50s, had she been younger I would've probably been less upset and mortified by it all.

Hopefully none of you will ever experience anything like this, I appreciate all the comments and words of support. My dad explained to the owner that I was diabetic and he said his uncle was T1 so he has a fair knowledge of the affects and symptoms of a hypo and assured my dad he'd inform his staff about it.

I guess it's just about trying to raise awareness to stop others having to go through similar issues, sometimes it's total ignorance on some peoples part


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Crimsonclient said:
Sorry I am a little confused here even though it is absolutely disgusting what happened. But why would this only happen to T1 or GD. I am type 2 and I have hypos so the education should be for all types of diabetes not just certain types


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I think you may be referring to my post. I thought that hypos would be more likely to happen to a T1 or GD. I am a new T2 and am a million miles from ever hypoing at the moment :( I will pass on your comment to my daughter.
 
Crimsonclient said:
Sorry I am a little confused here even though it is absolutely disgusting what happened. But why would this only happen to T1 or GD. I am type 2 and I have hypos so the education should be for all types of diabetes not just certain types


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I'm not saying it could or would only happen to a T1, I was just explaining my particular situation and the circumstances surrounding what happened as it had been playing on my mind so I thought I'd ask if anyone on the forum had experienced anything similar :)


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This has really upset me, **** I'm angry too! :mad:

I don't find it surprising that someone could be so appallingly ignorant really, there are a lot of health conditions that I know nothing about but even ignorance shouldn't excuse the total lack of sympathy and the complete disregard for someone else's discomfort. The willingness that this stupid person dished out her humiliation is just dreadful! I was in the food industry for 40 years, I know the variety and behaviour of people well and I know too that if this had happened in any place I managed you would have received the attention you needed.

This is a service industry, if this **** woman dislikes people so much maybe she should become something else although it would have to be something where she has absolutely NO contact with other people whatsoever.

Was this place a franchise? If it was then you would do well to contact the head office and tell them what happened, This kind of thing has a knock on effect on other places of the same brand and I know it's in the franchise contract that they behave!

Never mind love, keep trucking and remember....Never Give Up, Never Surrender!!:D
Let us know when baby is born? :)
 
kimkennedy89 said:
Thank you popsy, I too worked in the food industry for over 5 years and completely understand why we were approached by the waitress but couldn't comprehend why she was still aggressive after the situation had been fully explained to her....

It wasn't a franchise, it was just a local sit in cafe but the owner did apologise to my dad and seemed genuinely upset about what had happened, so I suppose that's something. I love how my dad still feels the need to jump to my defence even though I'm 24 lol.

Baby girl is due in June but I'm expected for a mid May delivery so not long left now, although I feel like a beached whale lol :)


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Years ago, I worked in a cinema - the arty type that screens films that go on for many, many hours. On a few occasions, patrons would come running out to say their friend needed urgent sugar. I would just open the vending machine and tell them to do what they needed to do. I was ignorant about diabetes, but assumed that people don't pretend about serious health matters. You should give people the benefit of the doubt in these circumstances I reckon.
 
kimkennedy89 said:
I'm not saying it could or would only happen to a T1, I was just explaining my particular situation and the circumstances surrounding what happened as it had been playing on my mind so I thought I'd ask if anyone on the forum had experienced anything similar :)


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Sorry I was replying to another reply


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Sorry guys, I think I may have got the wrong end of the stick here and I am really sorry for that I don't mean to upset anyone I just feel that people should be aware of all types of diabetes


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