A colleague of mine at work has Type 2 diabetes and I have little experience of this myself not being diabetic although type 1 runs in my family and I wondered if I might seek some advice from this board?
She is prone to dramatic mood swings and sugar highs that have been having an impact on her ability to do her job. Like the rhyme, she’s good she’s very very good or when she’s bad, she’s horrid. I only know her side of the story but can clearly see that she struggles with confidence as she’s overweight and surrounded by skinny young things that make her jealous (being a bit curvy myself and older I totally get that!) and often loses her temper which of course gets her into trouble at work but feel that she deeply regrets it and it always happens when her sugar is raised. But she doesn’t manage her diabetes – so today she has left us to go home with high sugar levels over 20 having eaten a jam doughnut, a pastry, cornish pasty plus egg and chips for lunch! Unfortunately her attitude is that she should live life to the full but of course, she isn’t able to as there are bouts of depression (I know she takes Prozac). Ultimately it’s up to her to help herself but our boss is running out of patience with her claiming that she’s not her mother. I can see her frustration as we both feel that my colleague might feel a lot better emotionally if she was able to manage her diabetes but any attempts to do so are meet with a brick wall.
Does anyone have any advice?
She is prone to dramatic mood swings and sugar highs that have been having an impact on her ability to do her job. Like the rhyme, she’s good she’s very very good or when she’s bad, she’s horrid. I only know her side of the story but can clearly see that she struggles with confidence as she’s overweight and surrounded by skinny young things that make her jealous (being a bit curvy myself and older I totally get that!) and often loses her temper which of course gets her into trouble at work but feel that she deeply regrets it and it always happens when her sugar is raised. But she doesn’t manage her diabetes – so today she has left us to go home with high sugar levels over 20 having eaten a jam doughnut, a pastry, cornish pasty plus egg and chips for lunch! Unfortunately her attitude is that she should live life to the full but of course, she isn’t able to as there are bouts of depression (I know she takes Prozac). Ultimately it’s up to her to help herself but our boss is running out of patience with her claiming that she’s not her mother. I can see her frustration as we both feel that my colleague might feel a lot better emotionally if she was able to manage her diabetes but any attempts to do so are meet with a brick wall.
Does anyone have any advice?