I'm SO mad!

April 18, 2004

Is it wrong to think of strangling a snotty Certified Diabetes Educator?

OK -- I ADMIT I started our little war, when I began by emphasizing the

amount of grief I'd gotten at work when the diabetes education center

cancelled our appointment last week all of four hours before it was

scheduled to happen. 45 minutes into the appointment, while discussing the

problem of kidney damage, CDE comes out with " and if you're on dialysis you

have to have it three times a week, and imagine what that would do to your

schedule. " I WAS tempted to shoot back, but decided to let my blood

pressure speak for me (elevated bp isn't good for kidneys, especially if

they've got trouble with giant-sized, glucose-stuffed red blood cells, or so

I've read): 108/64. Not bad for someone who's trying to control his tongue.

Now if only I had the stamina and waistline I had when I was 18....

THEN, when she gave me a tour of the place (why?), she pointed out the large

group of nurses going through CDE training, and pointed out one of the

trainers (who also teaches patients). " She starts her classes by saying 'I

have cancer. I can't control that, but you can control diabetes.' " or

something like that. Now I'm really steamed again: Officially, I know

nothing, absolutely nothing, but if Ms. CDE knew what was going on where I

work, she wouldn't be so quick to play the cancer card.

As the piece de resistance, when we're scheduling me for the set of four

actual classes, they want to put me in June. I point out my authorization

letter from the HMO and physician's group specify the permisson for this

particur benefit expires June 16, 2004 (which sounds heartless, but you

should know the permission got to me a month late due to a problem with the

physician's group -- the HMO has actually been pretty good about this

particular benefit).

The punch line: This particular CDE is better than a psychologist -- our two

hour session was all of 90 minutes long.

BUT in her favor, she DID field some tough questions, gave me some great

answers and gave me some solid leads on some of the questions she couldn't

answer -- not a bad performance when confronted by me in my " irate " setting.

I promise to do much much better when I meet the nutritionist.

Leone, rleone@... " Only you can prevent long sig files. "

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