The random phrases that People say about Diabetes that do not make sense

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I love it when I talk to people and they say she can't have it she is only 4 and so thin I feel like saying yeah I was just telling you a lie!!! I have also had one lady at the grocery store say well she shouldn't  be eating any of the things you are buying!!!! I left the store before I said a bad word that Madison might repeat. Another lady told my husband that the reason my daughter has it is because we choose to have her vaccinated and if we would have been educated on the risks of vaccination my daughter would not have diabetes. I was in another store at the time and when we met up he told me then refused to point her out because I had already told him to find this b#$# and take our daughter to the car I was fuming!!!! Maybe it was better I never found her I might have been charged with assault if I had of!!

 

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My sister actually asked me to help her lie to her kids when she told them that they couldn't have sugar because they would get diabetes and have to take shots like their Aunt Linda. Of course I refused...and then I told them to eat some sugar for me ..haha:)

Lindagayle

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When I meet my maternal grand parents and their family, they say "Do you still take insulin?" or "It's okay, have that sweet. It wont affect your diabetes much!!"

"You might have eaten a lot of sugar when you were a baby. That's why you got diabetes."

At times, these comments are so irritating. Despite my explanation that I didnt get diabetes because of sugar intake, they still comment!!!!!!!

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wow madisonkim i would of been charged with battery or something. haha. thumbs up for keeping your cool cause i sure as heck know i wouldnt of. but i dont have a daughter im only fourteen. haha. but if someone said those comments to me  oh myyy.. haha.

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As the mom of a newly diagnosed 4 year old, I have a load of crazy things.  Some of which I'm certain were well intended. Here are my TOP 10:

1. "Everything will be ok" (while we are at the hospital, with our son in ICU at 1000, grieving and overwhelmed -- Did God go on vacation and put you in charge?)

2. "My child plays sports with a type 1. He/she just seems like a "normal" little boy." (as opposed to 'abnormal,' which means they're missing a limb or going blind?).

3. "I just started selling this awesome diet/energy drink. My husband has been on it and lost a ton of weight and it's supposed to level out blood sugar. You might want to think about trying it for Jax."

4. "Are you still checking his sugar all of the time?" (HUH?)

5. "Do you still HAVE to check him in the middle of the night?" (My reply, spouted off after not much sleep: Would you be able to sleep through the night if you thought YOUR child might be down the hall in a coma?)

6."Does everyone who has diabetes count carbs so carefully?" (HUH? HUH?)

7. I was telling a co-worker about an afternoon where I could not get his sugar above 70, even after pumping in over 45 carbs. She replied "Have you seen Steel Magnolias? She just drank orange juice."

8. "Kim, you're so organized and your kids already eat so healthy, I just can't think of a better person that this could have happened to. You'll be so good at this."

9. While talking to FAMILY, I mentioned that we will be checking for celiac at the next dr appointment, because Jax isn't gaining any weight. (He's already highly allergic to milk). My sister-in-law replied, "you should get Elisabeth Hasselbeck's book. Having celiac is so easy these days. She gives you recipes and everything. It's really no big deal."

10. We were invited to a family BBQ and asked to bring our snowcone maker and sugar free syrups. Nevermind that it would be a huge hassle to lug that stuff across town. We showed up without the snowcone supplies and my other sister in law snapped loudly, "Oh great, now we don't have any dessert. I couldn't get anyone to bring anything because Jax can't have dessert."

 

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kimmay- wow that is wow. 

the last one really got me.

all of my family was soo supportive they all made sugarfree things, everything had splenda,people are so rude and inconsiderant. i wish they would understand but unfourtunetly they probaly never will. unless that it would be possible that they would "live in a type one diabetecs shoes".

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and the funniest part is, the small hard pretzles have like, less than one gram of carbs!!

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lol

kinda ramdom?

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8. "Kim, you're so organized and your kids already eat so healthy, I just can't think of a better person that this could have happened to. You'll be so good at this."

oh my - that would have driven me insane! It drives me crazy that someone would actually say that! As if you would say that to someone who's kid has a serious food allergy or cancer or something! Ahhh! Good luck with the family - so far we have been lucky that our family seems to be asking questions because they want to know, and not informing us on how much they think they know!

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Great post Kim - I can feel the frustration!  People are amazing sometimes (not in a good way)

My random phrase example is short - just b/c it's the most recent - the guy next to me says "So you gotta pump yourself with glucose now"  while I was testing my blood.   This is the 4th time he's asked the same question in the past month.  I just looked at him and said, "Ok, this morning you were late b/c you thought your car was stolen but you left it at the park after driving to the park to walk your dog then walked the dog home.  The police asked you if you had been drinking.  Does it hurt to be this stupid?"  Ok that sounds mean of me to say but he laughed the whole time b/c he actually is that stupid and didn't realize the insult. 

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One of things that really ticks me off....

Ill be sitting with my family at a restaraunt and Ill order a diet soda. I like to double check to make sure its diet so I always ask the waitress again "Is it diet?" More than half of the time my little brother will chime in and say "It has to be diet...he..(with a sad tone in his voice?)he...hes a diabetic."

Biggest pet peeve ever!

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doug d-haha.

thats pretty halirous.

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I have an insulin pump and my first day at school everyone was like is that a camera??? Then my teacher told my classmates that I had diabetes and this one guy came up to me after class and said I'm so sorry you have rabies. This one person came up to me and said Hey girl can I use your cell phone to call my mom!? When I tell people I'm diabetic they sometimes freak out. This one girl said You have a disease?? and I was like yeah then she said I thought only old people got Diabetes. ALot of times when I tell people they always say Oh I'm so sorry... One of my grandparents has diabetes too! It kind of makes me mad when people say that they're grandparents have diabetes. I know alot of people have it but it makes me feel old! And it especially makes me feel worse when they say that they are so sorry for me. I know they mean it but it kind of gets old when they say it. They don't have to feel sorry for me. I'm not really different I just have to take shots and check my sugar.

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Oh when I went back to school the first day after being diagnosed with diabetes my friend saw me and waited for me to catch up to her and she was really worried why I hadn't been at school and I told her she started asking all these crazy questions. She was like... Really??? I'm so sorry for you. How can I help you??? and I told her she couldn't and she was like What exactly is diabetes??? Then in Gym one day my so called friend (not the one I was talking about earlier) came up to me and was like... You have a disease??? Don't touch me, Don't even get near me because I don't want to catch diabetes!!! It kind of hurt my feelings but everytime she would be mean to me or my friends I said "If you don't stop I'll give you diabetes!!!" Let's just say she stays farther away from me now.

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I was in Longview, Texas for a bowling tournament with my best friend, and before i ate my burger (like most diabetics :D) i went into the restroom to take my insulin and a woman comes out of the stall and just stares me down and yells "DRUGS?!"

i was so shocked that just because you see someone taking shots doesnt mean they're on drugs! After i told her i was a diabetic, she was like "oh...okay..." and still gives me that look saying "im watching you kid"

haha i will never forget that

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LOL the next time someone accuses me of it being drugs, I'm just going to smile and say, "Mm-hm, my life's dependent on them."

It would be great to hear the whole "you aren't dependent on drugs, you can stop whenever you want," speech just to see their face fall when I tell them I actually am dependent on this one.... (I know, hormone, not a drug ;))

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ha alyssa thats a good response. I started my new job about a month ago and i guess people are just starting to realize my pump. Some are pretty good about asking questions and the others are really not that good. One claimed that she knew all about it because a lot of people have type 2 in her family. I told her I had type 1 and she sighed and was like oh you have the bad one. It does bother me a little but the worst situation I had was my coworker (who is older and sometimes grumpy) told the manager that I kept looking at my phone a lot and thank god the owner has diabetes and he heard her. He came over to me and cracked a joke about it. It can get annoying but when someone actually knows what you are doing it makes you laugh 

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I've always been, in a way, too emberassed to crack a joke about D or any part of it.

 

I guess I should learn to lighten up :D. It makes it easier, and, some peoples' expressions are priceless.

One thing that gets on my nerves is when people stare when I test (if you have a question, ASK ME ALREADY!) and when they get freaked out about my pump. They stare at me with huge eyes like I'm a freak and say, "You mean that's connected to you? All the time?!"
Yeah, at those times, I almost smack that expression off their faces.... not really, but I do wish they would stop.

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haha go brittany!

just ignore them kinda people.

thats what i try to do.

they think they know everything about anything and ive got news for them.. they dont!

so just ignore them try your best not to let them get you down.

=DD

and yess. one of my friends looked at me and smiled and said you snuck ur cell in? i was like no its my pump shes like what? i was like diabetes shes like ooo.

haha.

a lot of stuff happens haha.

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haha that literaly made me laugh out loud.

woww.

well okay my aunt works at the highschool and my mom works at home she has her own daycare. and well my aunt overheard someone talk'n about something and for some reason they were saying something about my mom having to come to school. usually its because my mom has to pick me up cause my sugar is high and i have no clue what im doing.. hhaha. newayss shes like oo shes probaly high(meaning sugar is high) haha and one of the other teachers looked at her strangely and said "and your not worried about that?!" haha. my aunt just started laughing and said no i was talking about her sugar shes a diabetic. haha.

ill never forget that story =)