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Stolen from @alex, who emailed it to me, the first is from Time Out and seems to imply that diabetes is caused by high glucose levels…
http://www.timeoutdoha.com/community/features/15484-diabetes-in-doha
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Of course, this fantastically ill-informed piece of nonsense from a Indonesian weightlifter columnist is still a favourite:
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So our indonesian friend thinks we should all have sensitive insulin. Is this so it buys us flowers when we’re upset? Or makes us a cup of tea when we’re stressed out? I don’t get that from an (insensitive) husband, so maybe my insulin can takes his place…
My latest is from several colleagues, who wanted to know how my pump got my insulin into my pancreas – had I got a tube fitted inside me that it fitted onto?…!
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I recently got asked (clearly by an outsider of the Big D family) whether I had exhausted injection sites and needed to move on to inject between my toes….
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I also like this one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mehmet-oz/the-consequence-of-sweetn_b_447838.html
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@alex – Dr Mehmet is an arse! What a silly article!
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My favourite is often the use of T1 Diabetes as a tension raiser in Hollywood blockbusters.
Bits of dialogue like: “My Gad Jim… If that girl doesn’t get her shot in the next 45 minutes she’ll go into insulin-shock…”
Which would be more accurate if they were: “My Gad Jim… If that girl doesn’t get her insulin in the next 45 minutes she might get a bit grumpy during the afternoon, possibly a little thirsty too if it goes on a bit – but more than likely she’ll barely notice…”
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@mike – he he! I saw just that in a film the other day – I wish I could remember what it was…
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@mike – Not just in the movies… this is for real: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/8001130.stm
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I wonder what the family actually said? Cause it can’t have been that surely? Unless they just wanted to make sure they were at the front of the queue…
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My bags were once lost when I was flying to Toulouse. Although my insulin and supplies were in my hand luggage I tried playing the diabetic card by telling the baggage person at KLM that it had vital insulin supplies that I needed to keep me alive. I was hoping to get to the front of the baggage-being-returned queue, but no such luck – the coiffured baggage lady simply shrugged in a Gallic way and ignored me.
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I was recently asked whether I was OK or needed to “shoot up”. My usual answer is “I’m OK, because I shoot up”. These people with proper pancreas should do their homework on chronic diseases…
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@alex – ‘zactly! I know absolutely nothing about haemophilia, asthma, epilepsy or any other chronic illness. I’m a bloody disgrace!
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I was playing golf last weekend and a guy I had just met was told by my friend I was diabetic , don’t worry he said and proudly showed me a bottle of diet coke just in case of any sneaky hypo ! Suppose at least he thought he would be helping
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When I started my current job, after the usual ‘I’m diabetic, please don’t eat my emergency supplies’ introduction, a colleague took me aside to whisper that she thought I was ‘very brave’. This was accompanied by a pitying look, and a weird stroke on the arm, of the sort you would use to pet an injured kitten. She still does it occasionally- 3 years on!!!
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Hilary that is quality ! no one where i work gives a monkeys and would love to find me flat out just so they could plunge the huge needle thats on my GlucaGen Hypokit into my leg !
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When I went on holiday with my ex last year I discovered I needed a new sharps bin (I’m awful for leaving used needles in my bedroom but thought I’d better be more responsible when spending 2 weeks in a tent with the ex – on second thoughts perhaps I should have left them lying around….) Anyway, I went into a pharmacy and asked if I could have a new sharps bin while smiling sweetly. The woman behind the counter asked if I was taking part in the needle exchange policy so I asked “I bring you my dirty needles and you get rid of them? Can’t I just get a new sharps bin?” She went on to explain that if I brought my used gear in she would give me fresh supplies. I was still grinning away stupidly at her and agreed that would make sense until said ex (who is a policeman in sunny Easterhouse – ahem – bent over the counter and said “she’s diabetic”. The wee pharmacist went bright red and promptly handed me a black sharps bin. I was amazed by the ;
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@gillian – don’t you just throw your sharps in the paper recycling bin? That’s what I do.
I sometimes go round the back of the counter in my local pharmacy (I’m friends with the pharmacist, I don’t just wander round there) and look at the needle exchange kits. The needles are MASSIVE and euphemistically labelled with “diabetes supplies” on them. Heroin must really be great if people want to use such enormous horse needles!
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Read this choice nonsense today reported as if advice from American Diabetic Association Dietician and Director of Clinical Affairs: People with diabetes are also advised to limit their intake of carbohydrates, which means that “their best choices are low-fat dairy products, fruits and starchy vegetables,”
Perfect! Pass me the bananas and spuds. I’m going for the low carb option…
http://www.tucsonhealth101.com/news/bran-intake-helps-those-with-diabetes/
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@mike – ohhh, controversial – the old {few carbs} + {little insulin} versus {lots of carbs} + {lots of insulin} argument. Personally I prefer the latter because I like eating food!
I once attended a thingy where this was debated. The low carb guy’s arguments weren’t helped by the fact he looked really thin and unhealthy (and didn’t have a very well made suit, but I digress). It also reminds me of the ultra-low carb Allen diet that we had before insulin’s discovery:
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Pizza – YUM , spuds – YUM , pasta – YUM , ice cream – YUM , live fast , die young and leave a good.looking corpse !
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The insanity for me was the advocation of low carb while completely misunderstanding what that would actually mean.
Not a low-carber myself, though I do stop a little short of the ‘my-lunchtime-mars-bar = 4u’ approach.
The problem with dafne is the ‘n’.
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I’m not a low-carber due to a complete lack of self control when it comes to pasta and the like. That said, I do know that I have much better control with fewer peaks when I eat fewer carbs. I couldn’t consider life without carbs, but on the odd occassion I make the effort to eat fewer carbs, it does make a big difference.
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