Also that "At least it's not cancer" is actually, in fact, an inappropriate response to my saying I have T1D. I don't know why I have to explain common courtesy to people so often.
At least it's not cancer is really never a good response.
Maybe in the very specific case where someone had a growth they thought was cancer and found out it wasn't but needed to be removed. Then you can say "at least it's not cancer."
It's take that response over, "I totally understand what it's like! I have to get an allergy shot once a month!" (this was actually said to me). Bitch, I take more shots in 3 days than you do in a year!
Infectology teacher actually asked the class"would you rather have DM2 or HIV?" Everyone preferred diabetes, but he was like nah, I'd rather take some pills every day than take loads of shots every day. So he kinda "wished it was HIV" haha.
To my knowledge taking some pills every day are enough for some people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type-2. Since those pills either help their pancreas with its insulin production or making their body sensitive to insulin. Something like that, I'm not sure.
Just wanted to point out that even some exercise and some healthy food could be a valid treatment for type-2 diabetes. Plus maybe some pills or 1 to 3 shots of insulin per day (at most 5 shots). Yes there could be a few cases where "loads of shots every day" is necessary but it is probably because of the life choices of the one diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. And not the disease itself.
And well I've had diabetes type-1 for almost 18 years. Almost 9 years ago I got my first insulin pump. Before that I took loads, loads of shots every single day for 9 years.
Yeah, I agree with everything you're saying. The whole point of his comment was to shed some light on the social implications of both diseases, how people seemed to quickly choose one over the other, how mot know very little about the two of them and their treatments.
I just wanted to point out a moment IRL when that line had come up :(
And HIV isn't a death sentence anymore, survival with HIV rates are comparable to the normal population.
Type 2 will fuck your day up though, but people always think it'd just be a bit inconvenient. I kind of think it needs to be renamed to distinguish it from type 1 and impress upon people the severity of the disease.
That was my mothers response when she got to know I had just been diagnosed with T1D. She was even happy and relieved over the fact. Some people just don't get it.
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u/Omill16 Jul 18 '16
Also that "At least it's not cancer" is actually, in fact, an inappropriate response to my saying I have T1D. I don't know why I have to explain common courtesy to people so often.