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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2171298" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>Well, tell your manager this and point out this means that you won't be injecting any more, you'll just be fiddling with your pump controls. Maybe they'd like to pay for a cgm so that you don't have to do blood tests so often, and that would cater for your colleague's disability aka needle phobia. (I guess they'd better hope that they never become T1 because then they'd have to cope with injecting and testing themselves.)</p><p></p><p>I got the same lecture at my second job over 30 years ago. Admittedly I wasn't being particularly discreet about my injecting, but I remember feeling devastated by the criticism. I talked to my immediate colleagues and they were all fine with it, so I never really found out what the issue was.</p><p></p><p>How well do you get on with the folk in your workspace? I'd be tempted to let them know how you feel. I suspect that the objector might be doing so out of ignorance rather than malice. But people do have phobias about all sorts of things (spiders ugh) so try to be sympathetic to them. But it's their problem, not yours. </p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2171298, member: 372717"] Well, tell your manager this and point out this means that you won't be injecting any more, you'll just be fiddling with your pump controls. Maybe they'd like to pay for a cgm so that you don't have to do blood tests so often, and that would cater for your colleague's disability aka needle phobia. (I guess they'd better hope that they never become T1 because then they'd have to cope with injecting and testing themselves.) I got the same lecture at my second job over 30 years ago. Admittedly I wasn't being particularly discreet about my injecting, but I remember feeling devastated by the criticism. I talked to my immediate colleagues and they were all fine with it, so I never really found out what the issue was. How well do you get on with the folk in your workspace? I'd be tempted to let them know how you feel. I suspect that the objector might be doing so out of ignorance rather than malice. But people do have phobias about all sorts of things (spiders ugh) so try to be sympathetic to them. But it's their problem, not yours. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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