Quote:
Originally posted by TShelton
Ok I'm not sure why my thread was closed.
I think that was a little bit rediculous. |
Agreed, but mainly because this is an important topic of
great concern to many of us.
No one likes to be told that they should not do something,
and when one's diabetic condition is involved, there may
very well be a desire to prove to the world that diabetes
is not holding you back. The problem might be in looking at
it in that manner. There are many options in one's life.
This may be a chance to expand, rather than feel limited
by the possibilities.
I answered the other questions, so, I will just give you
a link to that new thread, but I will try to briefly respond
to these points:
Quote:
Originally posted by TShelton
As for WiseWords, I have participated in athletics
my entire life. I was mainly involved in soccer.
Do you have any idea how much endurance is required
to complete an entire match? Do you honestly know how
physically demanding the sport is? If was able to go
through all the athletics in which I was involved with
no problems, I know for an absolute fact I could do so
as a police officer. |
It is NOT a question of your physical strength or ability
at physical endurance. It is your mental attitude
!
You do not know for an absolute fact that you could
be a police officer based on the fact that you had a
lot of stamina and endurance on a soccer field. I am not
saying it doesn't count for something. It most certainly
does. But there are many other issues. Your attitude is
not even a diabetic one, but it is an issue. One which I
will side step. There is enough just with the diabetes.
If you are good at sports, maybe you should consider
being a phys-ed teacher, or a soccer coach. At least when
you get low, you will probably have some juice right there
on the field. And, you will get low at times, because you
are an insulin dependent diabetic.
It is a consideration.
Quote:
Originally posted by TShelton
I don't know your situation, but you do absolutely
sound pathetic. |
Actually, that attitude, among others is the reason the
other thread was closed,
but as far as I am concerned, I would rather have you
express your true feelings because that is the only way
for us to attempt to arrive at any understanding.
Quote:
Originally posted by TShelton
Diabetes IS NOT a disease that should hold you back
from what you want to do. |
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more.
But if, in an attempt not to be held back, you ignore
the obvious facts which you have to live with, then
it won't be the diabetes that is holding you back.
It will be you
! Quote:
Originally posted by TShelton
You really think that in the middlle of a 5 minute foot chase,
my blood sugar will drop enough to affect me? |
In a word,
Yes. Quote:
Originally posted by TShelton
Come on now, how much do you really know about this disease?
The situations you presented were rediculous,
and would not happen if you had your diabetes under control.So
welcome back to the discussion people. |
The situations I presented were as real as they get.
They may not be what you want to hear,
but they are the truth.
Take a look at the other thread. I think Angie expressed
my thoughts a little more diplomatically that I might be
inclined to do. She has been where you want to go.
A paramedic is in much the same situation with regard
to a changing schedule on a moment's notice.
The only thing I would add to what she said, and
what I said in those comments, is that although you
may be able to do all that right now, as the years pass,
you are only going to get older. You might develop
problems related to control issues that you do not
have right now. No one can say when that will happen,
or if it will happen, or if it will be severe enough
to keep you from doing what many diabetics would be kept
from doing. But even now, when you are at the height of
your physical stamina, if you don't know that a five minute
chase could make you low, and that being low, even
slightly low, could make a difference, then you are
the one who has got a lot to learn.
Furthermore, you are ignoring the issue about
an emergency call preventing your ability to
eat a meal on time. What then
?
These issues do matter, considerably, and they will
prevent you from having a winning situation.
Quite frankly, they will also prevent you from
getting hired. If you can't see the issues, others can.
You can have a win-win situation, but not as a
fireman, a paramedic, a policeman, or a GI-Joe.
Being a Diabetic Detective may appeal to you,
but it would be putting the lives of other people
at risk, and that is not being a caring person.
There are a lot of options out there, but
risking the lives of other people are not some of them.
For whatever it is worth, these are just more of the
same comments in another thread
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--->Expectations & Limitations 
