Can You Get Diabetes From Eating Too Much Sugar?
Annoying questions
What do you say to strangers who rudely ask about your diabetes?
People come up to me all the time and ask if my insulin pump is a cell phone. Or someone will stare at me when I check my blood sugar and ask, "Is that for high blood pressure?". It gets very frustrating to always have to explain everything about an insulin pump or glucometer to some curious person who does not even know me. Then, if I do tell them I have diabetes, they might say, "Oh, my grandmother has that. You ate...
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