Absolutely! I’ve started encouraging him to call me out more. I’m not without my bad diabetes habits… I’m also fine with changing my pump site in the bathroom at home – adequate counter space, and at least I know when we last cleaned. 
And replacing a bathroom rug covered in blood is a smaller investment, after all. 
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Same.
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Here’s a nice thing someone said to this diabetic: A longtime neighbour recently told me, “You’re the healthiest sick person I know!”
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Maybe it’s just me but I would take issue with the word sick. Lol. Liam isn’t sick at all…
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Liam is unlimited!
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Yes! I feel the same way. I have never seen myself as “sick” … even when I was younger and didn’t want others to know about my T1D, I always thought of myself as healthy.
I think a lot of that is a credit to my parents. They went out of their way to make sure I knew that I could still do whatever I wanted to do.
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my supervisor at work told me that I should not be taking shots in the lunch room. She suggested that I do it in the men’s room.
My response was “ do you know what people do in there?!?”
We compromised and I do it in the office area.
(I used to work with a man who could say the most obnoxious things. When he was getting annoying I would reach into my lunch box and grab my syringe, and he would disappear in two seconds)
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A version of this happened to me in Victoria British Columbia. A lovely Canadian woman asked politely if she could ask about my cochlear implants.
I assured her that I would be happy to share my experience. We had a lovely chat.
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When I’m at work I wear a long sleeve T-shirt underneath my official work shirt.
I’m not shy, but I need it to protect my sensor from being dislodged from my arm
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I think everyone here is. Sometimes people with diabetes GET SICK, like everyone else does…but no one here walks around sick just because you have diabetes.
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Related to the “sick” comments, whenever I have to call Dexcom to get a replacement, they ask me if I am “the patient”.
And I always reply, “No, I’m not a patient. I’m just the one who uses it.”
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@Eric Of course we’re patients because others try our patience and we have to endure patiently.
c. 1200, pacience , “quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.,” from Old French pacience “patience; sufferance, permission” (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia “the quality of suffering or enduring; submission,”
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Well, I wasn’t offended. We are old friends, and she does work in public health, and I knew what she meant, which was “You’re the healthiest person with a chronic illness I know.”
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It definitely takes on a different meaning when a friend/loved one says it. I missed that context. If a stranger said it, though, or someone I don’t know well, I’d have to take that as a moment to educate. 
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Agreed, if a stranger said it, I’d have a few things to say back.
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I pride myself as being one of the impatient. In many ways I don’t know what I want but I certainly want it now 
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@Eric I’m right there with you on the “patient” topic! I’ve told Dexcom a number of times I don’t appreciate being referred to as “patient”, I use their product like I use a computer, pen, pencil, paper, or even a vitamin pill. I don’t consider myself a “patient” of the manufacturer of Vitamin D. For those using a CGM for sports or other purposes, do they referred to as “patients”? In the grand scheme, it’s a minor irritation, but still an irritation.
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I think the most annoying one I had was my step-father-in-law & my mother-in-law. Before I got the pump, they wanted me to go use the bathroom to give myself insulin. They made my husband tell me instead of them confronting me head-on about it. They didn’t tell me they had a fear of needles either. Luckily, this was 6 years ago. I still feel a little hurt about it because it was done in such a childish way.
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