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<blockquote data-quote="lippymk1" data-source="post: 340811" data-attributes="member: 42557"><p><strong>Re: How would you handle this? Work colleagues taking the mi</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi, this is an awful way to get treated! I have been discriminated against in just about every job I have had! From employers huffing and puffing when I have needed to take a break to having to take 5 minutes less for lunch cos of going to the loo more often when first diagnosed and not knowing how to control it! I have even been sacked for having diabetes, being told my diabetes was scaring the other staff by a boss who thought he knew everything about diabetes including what I could and couldn't eat! </p><p>My last job was a senior sales assistant in R S McColls where I had to fight for every hospital appointment to change my day off and often cancelled the appointments rather than having to raise my head. I subsequently had to give up my job there cos of diabetic retinopathy where my eyes are both bleeding and doing the job was making them worse! </p><p>If I were you in your situation though I would not be secretive about taking insulin! I would do it in the open and not care who was watching or who it might upset because for us it is a life or death situation! If we don't take our insulin we will die! </p><p>I also totally object to people thinking we have singled ourselves out for having diabetes to get attention or something! I also have coeliac disease and quite frankly would rather be "normal"!!!</p><p>Good luck but try and stay calm and realize it is them who have the issues and not yo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lippymk1, post: 340811, member: 42557"] [b]Re: How would you handle this? Work colleagues taking the mi[/b] Hi, this is an awful way to get treated! I have been discriminated against in just about every job I have had! From employers huffing and puffing when I have needed to take a break to having to take 5 minutes less for lunch cos of going to the loo more often when first diagnosed and not knowing how to control it! I have even been sacked for having diabetes, being told my diabetes was scaring the other staff by a boss who thought he knew everything about diabetes including what I could and couldn't eat! My last job was a senior sales assistant in R S McColls where I had to fight for every hospital appointment to change my day off and often cancelled the appointments rather than having to raise my head. I subsequently had to give up my job there cos of diabetic retinopathy where my eyes are both bleeding and doing the job was making them worse! If I were you in your situation though I would not be secretive about taking insulin! I would do it in the open and not care who was watching or who it might upset because for us it is a life or death situation! If we don't take our insulin we will die! I also totally object to people thinking we have singled ourselves out for having diabetes to get attention or something! I also have coeliac disease and quite frankly would rather be "normal"!!! Good luck but try and stay calm and realize it is them who have the issues and not yo [/QUOTE]
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