| Diabetes has never stopped me.
My current job is a police dispatcher. Sometimes I'm the only dispatcher working since we are a small department. On the weekends, I may be the only one in the entire police department. When I was hired I let them know during the interview that I was diabetes and that I wouldn't have any problems doing the job. Heck, at the same time I was applying for my job I applied as a police officer to alot of other departments. The diabetes never got in the way, just the fact that I couldn't run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes that did or that I didn't have past experience (police or military.)
I also rock climb, although it's been a while, and I've never let diabetes affect me then. Heck, I'd love to climb to the top of Everest or K2 if I could 1) find the team to do it with 2) find the time to take off work and money to fund it 3) figure out how to do it with an insulin pump that wouldn't freeze the insulin.
Diabetes never stops me and I have no problem letting people know before I do something that I'm diabetic. That's mainly in case something does happen that they know when they call 911.
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●Blue Ash, Ohio Police Dispatcher
●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. | 
