I know it’s human nature, because I’ve had this discussion a few times with friends. Basically no matter what your health condition, people can’t help but blab out inconsiderate responses when you reveal to them you have a condition. Take my good friend with endometriosis for example: one of her workmates assured her it might be cervical cancer, and another took it upon herself to inform my friend she should forget about ever having children.
People just seem to have a knee jerk reaction sometimes – they’re so keen to try to say something to fill the silence, they don’t wait for their brain to catch up with their mouth.
I had a pearler yesterday. A very good friend of…
By Nic on 4 September 2008 at 7.41 pm
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I’m not the only one!
This comment came in today from my friend Aaron (who incidentally is going to be a guest blogger on beingdiabetic while I’m in Japan for two weeks) and while it’s in the comments box on this post, I just had to share it with you as it is just so nice to share these frustrations – a problem shared and all that!
From Aaron re this post:
This is without a doubt the thing that does my nut the most about being a diabetic.
People ask me all the time about whether the injections hurt, the finger pricks are painful and that it must suck that I can’t eat lollies/icecream/coke and aunty Pat’s caramel…
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