| Ouch... yep, move on, and pretty please PM me if you find a caring, progressive, inclusive educator/team in Melb (and I will do the same). I don't know if that DE is the same as mine, but our endos sure sound similar. Good luck.
On another note on this theme, the other day I was picking up some strips from a chemist, and a guy who was obviously facing his demons and getting a tester and strips for the first time in something like 5 years, was faced with a DE (or maybe a pharmacy assistant) who I felt like going and hitting. She was filling out a form at the desk:
her: "So how many times a day do you test?"
him: "oh, I havn't tested in years" (really embarrassed)
her: "you naughty boy" (in a tsk tsk gee you should know better tone and this guy is about 38 by the way)
him: "Well.... that's what I'm here for" (getting red faced and defensive)
her: "so how many times a week? Oh, no, that's right, not for years hey? (laughs loudly AT him) You know you should be doing it every day? What am I supposed to write on this form? Are we meant to think you are going to just start testing all of a sudden?" (In a really nasty "yeah right, that'll be the day" tone)
By this stage I could feel his thinking had changed to a bewildered "D this attitude, D my diabetes, D the whole blasted thing"... and I knew exactly how he felt, especially faced with nasty, blinkered hostility like that. I had to walk out to stop myself sticking my nose in, so I've got no idea what happened from there (probably downhill).
I was wondering exactly the same question as you Judi, Why are these people working in that industry?
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Some boring but vital statistics:
32 year old male. Type 1 since age of 15. On Minimed Paradigm 722/Novorapid since Dec 07.
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