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<blockquote data-quote="Bic" data-source="post: 1730632" data-attributes="member: 215944"><p>You are lucky to have such nice, dependable people around you! In general I think it wiser to let people know I have type 1, but I must admit I don't often feel safer when I do. In my country there is no special awareness about the different types of diabetes and even in my own family (husband, cousins, sister in law, nehpews – the latter are about to graduate in a medical school, by the way) there is NO clue about what exactly my condition is, or what it requires. No matter how many times one instructs people, they just seem unable to retain the gist. I had a most severe hypo in a remote area, in the night, with nobody else awake (I could not even whisper, let alone shout for help), <em>exactly because</em> I had let the landlady know I had T1D. So she had served some ungodly thing for dinner that was 'very good for you who have diabetes', only she couldn't tell how many carbs there were in it … Nor could I, cause I had never heard of it before. And bingo! </p><p>And it happened so many times, again and again: I say I have T1 (stressing the 'T1' part) diabetes, they just catch 'diabetes', and diabetes means either T2 only, or the rubbish you find on the media. I have explained over and over again what T1 is, but the problem is either people don't listen, or they simply can't believe or can't remember my words. It's not only frustrating, it has also proved risky for my own health a little too often for my taste. </p><p>So, believe me: you really ARE lucky to be surrounded by such well-informed and sensible people!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bic, post: 1730632, member: 215944"] You are lucky to have such nice, dependable people around you! In general I think it wiser to let people know I have type 1, but I must admit I don't often feel safer when I do. In my country there is no special awareness about the different types of diabetes and even in my own family (husband, cousins, sister in law, nehpews – the latter are about to graduate in a medical school, by the way) there is NO clue about what exactly my condition is, or what it requires. No matter how many times one instructs people, they just seem unable to retain the gist. I had a most severe hypo in a remote area, in the night, with nobody else awake (I could not even whisper, let alone shout for help), [I]exactly because[/I] I had let the landlady know I had T1D. So she had served some ungodly thing for dinner that was 'very good for you who have diabetes', only she couldn't tell how many carbs there were in it … Nor could I, cause I had never heard of it before. And bingo! And it happened so many times, again and again: I say I have T1 (stressing the 'T1' part) diabetes, they just catch 'diabetes', and diabetes means either T2 only, or the rubbish you find on the media. I have explained over and over again what T1 is, but the problem is either people don't listen, or they simply can't believe or can't remember my words. It's not only frustrating, it has also proved risky for my own health a little too often for my taste. So, believe me: you really ARE lucky to be surrounded by such well-informed and sensible people! [/QUOTE]
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