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<blockquote data-quote="SandyDee" data-source="post: 524612" data-attributes="member: 81190"><p>I don't know about the worst but the most embarrassing was definitely when I was diagnosed. I had been very thirsty and drinking anything that sat still long enough, my mother was nurse on the diabetic ward at the local hospital, she thought I was addicted to the sugar in the drinks, I disagreed. After a lot of arguing she said if I wasn't addicted to the sugar I must be diabetic and I said I must be that then. She said she would prove it was the sugar and not diabetes, I bet her it was diabetes, so next time she went to work she brought home a stick for me to pee on. I did, it went brown and she panicked!</p><p>She rushed me straight up the hospital for blood tests, I was a young, naïve 18 year old who had never had blood taken before. The doctor was a junior doctor who was obviously terrified of my mother (as most men were) and as he got more nervous his stutter got worse and his hands shook more which didn't inspire much trust. He tried several times in each arm to get blood without success and then out of desperation he said he would try to get it from my groin! I was mortified, not least because I was wearing the tiniest pair of knickers possible<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />. After another 3 attempts he eventually got enough blood to confirm diabetes, but he couldn't look me in the face any more. I ended up with bruises all over my groin and both arms, they just seemed to all join up and I looked like a black grape. All downhill from there. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite40" alt=":hungover:" title="Hungover :hungover:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":hungover:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SandyDee, post: 524612, member: 81190"] I don't know about the worst but the most embarrassing was definitely when I was diagnosed. I had been very thirsty and drinking anything that sat still long enough, my mother was nurse on the diabetic ward at the local hospital, she thought I was addicted to the sugar in the drinks, I disagreed. After a lot of arguing she said if I wasn't addicted to the sugar I must be diabetic and I said I must be that then. She said she would prove it was the sugar and not diabetes, I bet her it was diabetes, so next time she went to work she brought home a stick for me to pee on. I did, it went brown and she panicked! She rushed me straight up the hospital for blood tests, I was a young, naïve 18 year old who had never had blood taken before. The doctor was a junior doctor who was obviously terrified of my mother (as most men were) and as he got more nervous his stutter got worse and his hands shook more which didn't inspire much trust. He tried several times in each arm to get blood without success and then out of desperation he said he would try to get it from my groin! I was mortified, not least because I was wearing the tiniest pair of knickers possible:oops:. After another 3 attempts he eventually got enough blood to confirm diabetes, but he couldn't look me in the face any more. I ended up with bruises all over my groin and both arms, they just seemed to all join up and I looked like a black grape. All downhill from there. :hungover: [/QUOTE]
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