Lol
I would rather they made that assumption & draw a line under it. Than explain Diabetes to someone who's fist language isn't English... Well, until they met my wife.!
Surely she could have made a pun about the highs and lows of blood sugar and marriageSince diagnosis at the age of 8. I have been souly responsible for my own "care package."
I don't remember my bride mentioning anything about diabetes in the vows...
But not a gay drinkInterestingly, the common term for diabetes in Eastern Europe translates as 'sugar disease'; whenever I've gone abored (sic.) I've always taken a 'Berlitz' phrase book and learnt the term for diabetes... if nothing else, the locals will want to buy you a drink for learning the lingo!
Hahaha I've left school now but I'll try it on my friends although I have a feeling they'll be too whimpy to try itHow old are you, if you don't mind me asking?
I remember the plastic syringes.. I got caught out injecting in a locker room at college & the rumour went round I was a junkie!And ain't that the thing!
The funny thing is when I was at 'skool' many friends were so interested to know what it was like to inject and 'prick my finger' that I bought a pack of 10 'plastipak' syringes (the oldies will remember those - and the fact that we had to buy them until 1985) from my local chemist so that they could all sample the delights themselves!
Needless to say, I went up in their esteem after that.
Perhaps you should offer to give them all a freebie @Ilana! (Do use new needles / lancets for each one ... and sharps bin them afterwards!)
Are they appropriate for the forum or...?I remember the plastic syringes.. I got caught out injecting in a locker room at college & the rumour went round I was a junkie!
The "bad boy" image gone me some favours though...
I don't remember my bride mentioning anything about diabetes in the vows...
Interestingly, the common term for diabetes in Eastern Europe translates as 'sugar disease'; whenever I've gone abored (sic.) I've always taken a 'Berlitz' phrase book and learnt the term for diabetes... if nothing else, the locals will want to buy you a drink for learning the lingo!
Are they appropriate for the forum or...?
Sounds like a one-sided relationship to me...Didn't you get her to repeat:
"... To have and to hold, in sickness ..." ?
Loving the diabetes banter on this thread
That needle looks terrifyingLol just to back this up. Here is a movie from the olden days..
What's really terrifying is the scripted reason Hansel got the "sugar sickness" in the first place...That needle looks terrifying
I'm not surprised at all, just saddened that so many of us have had to live with a condition that affects everything we do, and the simple life-sustaining act of what we can eat and drink whilst those immediately around us prefer to just switch off or glaze over or roll their eyes, etc. etc.
But I guess that's a great part of the ignorance of this condition: if you have no other issues, people look at you and say: "there's nothing wrong with you" or even - to quote one member on here - "you're not ill, you have diabetes".
Well, and I suppose this is my take on it, I am ill and I live with a chronic, life-threatening, metabolic-condition that has prevented me from pursuing a variety of career ambitions as well led to the development of complications owing to a gross misunderstanding of diabetes, diet and exercise (that I am now redressing - mostly thanks to this site and the many members on board).
To be quite frank, much of my hard time with diabetes links intrinsically with an unstable childhood and lack of family engagement and support with it, so it is with that experience in mind that I cannot stress the importance of 'loving' family and partners to get involved and share some of the journey with the diagnosed; if it weren't for the love and strength of support I've had from my wife I'd have probably died of dka or hypo-induced heart failure a fair few years ago.
I do agree with sentiments that we should not bore / overdo it, but I also feel that parents and partners particularly should take much greater interest than it seems many do; diabetes may not be cancer, but the long-term effects of poor control can be as insidious and debilitating as many types of that disease.
Lol just to back this up. Here is a movie from the olden days..
That needle looks terrifying
I only use the opportunity to educate folk on my Diabetes .
When 'they' ask me anything about it ...
Food , injections, pain/needles/lancets , routine , diagnosis etc .
I do it in a with pride positive manner .
I refuse to feel it should hinder me in any way .
Folk 'listen more' this way I have found .
Everyone has been great about it too .
It is good that you have this approach. My brother can be quite patronising. He talks as if he has a unique form of diabetes, type him. He is in the shade on this warm day today as it is important to stay cool, what with him being a diabetic then it is you know! his words.
I wonder though, these people that are diabetic in warmer countries like Asia, then many are Muslims. My wife says many people with type 2 diabetes (as per my brother) fast during Ramadam. How do they do it??
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