Re: explaining over and over and over...

Omg gosh!!!! that used to happen to me all the time!! But i got in trouble the first time it happended because I did not want to stand in front of the whole class and say" I am diabetic, it is my pump, not my cell phone" and then need to go on on on about what it is. So I got a detention (or how ever you spell it) of course I did not need to do it because I explained to him after class but still! I now have my pump on vibtate because I want by t1 to be as low key as possible.

all that explaining that i have to do is gettin old and boring... but then all the friends that i have know or have some one in their family thats diabetic so they know most of the basics as it is.. i just have to explain what they have to do when something happens with me. but when it came to explaining to all of the teachers, and when most of them are idiotic and wont let you go anywhere, that's when i get in trouble and all that fun stuff... 

haha yeah i know i feel the same way. except most of you guys have pumps and i still use the pen. so i always get the "OMG is that a *gasp* NEEDLE?" and then i always have to go through the whole spill of diabetes and why i have to take insulin

i got that all the time when i was on shots. and i always get "doesn't that hurt?" Well duh people let's think logically...it's a needle. Make your own deductions. (oh and for those of you who get that question, a response that always works is "well of course it hurts, but my choices are give the shot or live in the hospital." That usually shuts them up.)

I actually had an experience with the whole needle thing today because my site came out - stupid jeans - and I had to give a shot in the nurse's office. A kid that was sitting a few seats down from me is staring at me with his eyes bulging out of his head. Then he was like "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?". I didn't even respond, for two reasons. A) I couldn't think of anything adequate enough to combat that extremley rude and morronic statement and B) Sometimes I use big words and I don't think he would be able to understand me. So I gave him a simple eye roll. Do you think he understood that?

watch him be a senior and me be stuffed in a locker tommorrow.

its so annoying to explain but i give short explanations

on the other hand, whenever i have a friend over and were gonna eat, my mom just randomly starts explaining every little detail about it :P UGH

yeah i am taking food and nutrition and we were doing a unit on diabetes and my teacher told the class "don't hesitate to ask sehar, she's an expert at this stuff." then people came up to me for like a month straight asking me bizzare questions, a girl would say ewww and scream after she saw my checking my blood sugar at luch or stayed around long enough to hear the questioon. the m ost annoying is when my b.g. is low they say take ur needle, and when it's high the try to feed me>>>

well i don't mind answering stupid questions cos it's like we're educating the uneducated about our disease, which may also in time cause prevention.  wasn't education and spreading the word the theme for World Diabetes Day this year?

Idk guys, it can get annoying.. but it's like our JOB to do it.  and coming from a diabetic to someone uneducated about diabetes, it might stick better and they may pass the information on. You never know :)

but they're probably usually just curious haha

Uggh I hate trying to explain it ! specialy when you finish and someonte eles is like so what is it ? I can say that I have been kicked out of class for testing myself or giveing insullin with my pump because it looked like I was texting .But I hate trying to explain why I have a "tube" hanging outta me

Haha! Some of these stories are very interesting! I remember when I first got my pump in the fourth grade and all the kids would ask was "Is that a cell phone? You can't have cell phones at school!" Or "Can you play games on it??" Ha! Oh, to the girl that hides her pump from the teachers, Just pull it out and be obvious, because of course they're gonna see you ducking your head and your hands under the desk or what not. Just a tip for ya. I would sometimes even have other students push the button on my pricker so they could *** me when I needed to check my blood before lunch. But I still get that "What is it?" Question a lot about my pump. I find it's a good opportunity to educate someone else. :)

I know. This jerk of a guy one year caught a peice of a private conversation with one of my friends where I had mentioned my needles. He then decided to tell the entire school I was a druggie. I still hate him for it.

ahhh the druggie rumor...near and dear to my heart. people really love it when you say "I was high." I never even think twice about saying it, because it has such a different meaning to me. But people love to talk...

ive had diabetes for 13 years. i got it when i was 3. i was explaining in kindergarden to everyone as well as i could what it was. and still to this day im in 11th grade now mind you, but i still am explaining to people i have gone to school with seince kindergareden everything over and over everyday. and i just moved out of my home town in new yor, to north carolina, and tha day i started my new school is when they decided to tell me that there was no nurse! lmfao..i mean i can handle it on my own, but at this school youre not allowed to carry needles and "medications" with you as every other one. but i mean where am i supposed ta keep my supplies in case of an emergency? so me and my mom had to explain to them that i had to keep spare site changes, insulin, and injections where i can get to them at all times. so now they keep my supplies in the iss room. and as ive seen a few people mention :: the whole thing where people mention diabetes and over weight in the same sentence as in a negative way, i hate that too. :: also the whole thing about teachers flipping out..ive almost had to sue my elementary, and middle school a few times, almost at least once every year. we had to bring our lawyer to the school, because they were discriminating against me because of my diabetes, and diabetes is in the discrimination act, it is a chronic illness. :: not only did i have to explain to everyone i met and knew about diabetes, but i had to teach some emt's about it, i mean its good and all that they are getting the information they need from someone that knows about it first hand, but they are EMT's shouldnt they know at least the basics???

always,

jessarae

Unlike most of you I thankfully dont need to take insulin at school but I do still check. I get the usual "What is that?" and "Does that hurt?" question so I answer those as they come.

One thing that has helped me is in the beginning of a new class with a new teacher I usually talk to them after class to say that I have diabetes and that I have my machine in my bag and juice. I also tell them that I may need to go to the nurses office for insulin if I get the occasional high readings and most understand and for the rest of the year they dont bother me about it. I have gotten used to testing during class in front of everyone and now everyones used to it.

story. of. my. life. and i haven't even told half of my friends that I have diabetes. I have a friend that whenever he see's someone overweight, is like "oh! they must have diabetes." If I had the guts to tell him i'd tell him diabetes doesn't only have to do with weight but i don't. Anyways, i need some advice :) I'm new to this site so i don't know exactly how to do this...

Okay, so I have a really close friend who I just met this year. I've been diabetic for 3 years and I haven't been open about telling very many people (Hence the comment up above) It's not that I'm ashamed about having diabetes i'm just worried about telling people. I understand that most people are really excepting of it all but I really don't have self confidence that it's gonna come out right when I tell them. also, I worry that then, after they know, there'll be all this questioning like "why are you eating sugar then?" haha and all those other questions. I just feel like that's super awkward and I don't want to have to answer questions like that. Anyways, back to my friend. So, I haven't told her yet, and I'm attending a summer program at Brown University with her this summer and I have to tell her before then. My mom thinks its no big deal and is pressing me to tell her before she calls up my friend herself to tell her. I know someone on this site has to understand this so I hope I get a response. I can't imagine telling my friend when i've already known her for like a year already, yet the last thing I want is my mom to break the news to her. 

Thanks for your help :)

Flora

omg! help! lol my friends all think it was from being to skinny they don't get it when i explain 2 them....