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Poll: hardest to keep a straight face

I told my nephew I had recently been diagnosed - it was almost as though I had told him I was dying ..... poor lad .... he just kept repeating that he was sorry, so sorry ... I took me some time to explain things = bless him
 
1, 4 & 5........................Sorry can't decide, but all drive me mad x
 
magsiesss said:
I told my nephew I had recently been diagnosed - it was almost as though I had told him I was dying ..... poor lad .... he just kept repeating that he was sorry, so sorry ... I took me some time to explain things = bless him
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Sweet nephew though


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The worst thing about kindly advice is they keep making you do things that are close to impossible. Like eating 1 bitter gourd everyday until you recover.
And you need to be open minded about the fact that it can work. And if you skip one day of bitter gourd they say, there! You didn't eat everyday.


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14. Rather diabetes than stupid!

This one is actually funny methinks.
 
I'm a type 2 so the worst one is
4. You must have done something to deserve it : must be due to your lack of doing xxx, must be because you did yyy
Followed by
5. Opportunity to promote their cause : religion, kangen water, miracle cures
12. Actually you should stop insulin. Docs don't know everything. (You say no) you should be open minded!
I control well with the diet I got from a SSN dietician (when I'm following it, got a period when I was self-sabotaging but I'm try to solve it - another story, another thread - ) a person said that I should instead follow the diet advertised of some strange naturopath or whatever.

May I add another one?

15. Why you don't eat xxx and are so picky? You look like a vegan!

Especially if xxx is an high carb food that I don't like very much.
 
I would like to add another one:

16: Just one won't hurt

- actually, yes it will. It may (depending on the food) set me up for ravening hunger and carb cravings, increased insulin resistance, aches and pains, joint inflammation, mood swings, indigestion and brain fog.

Do I want that delicious looking scone? By heck I do!
Do I want to live with the 3 day consequences. Nope.
 
16 and 9, I only found I was Diabetic in September and I've heard those 2 so many times
 
azure said:
...and probably added a few new ones too! : D

It's really annoying when people make patronising or unhelpful comments about diabetes.
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And it's even more annoying when you get those stupidities from your nearest and dearest, who appears to still be pretty clueless after living with a type 2 for three years now!

Robbity

PS No 16 is probably the closest: I've have had "Added sugar is OK - there's less of it" when stating that I chose/prefer not to have any of this in processed food.
 
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That's funny I live in a quiet village in kent where everybody knows everybody. On Saturday we had God squad knock on the door I opened it and the woman in front of me stared to tell me that it's my fault that I'm Type 2 and it's gods way of punishing me. As I don't go to church and don't belive in him. Yep number 13 Bloody nutters
 
Definitely 4.

Was told I was so bad in my previous life that I would have been given a book to go through and pick 5 illnesses to have in this life to make me a goid person in my next life.

If I was going to pick 5, surely it would have been a cold 5 times!!

Heck, I must have been really bad in previous life.

I NHS Podiatrist told me tjis whilst sat in her raised chair whilst she did my feet!!
 
What is a God squad, and why they think that knocking doors on saturday is a good thing to do?
I have to say that saying impolite things to ill people doesn't help to have more followers.
 
Not on the list, but the assumption that if you are diabetic, then you must be taking insulin always gets a grin from me.
 
1, 2, 4, 5 (veganism in this case - did you know it can cure EVERYTHING?), 16.
 
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