Show me an Endo with diabetes and I’ll show you a multi-year waiting list to get an appointment. If I hadn’t been at the end of my time in college for a finance degree when I was diagnosed, I may just have thought about being an Endo. Yes, I know they do more than just diabetes, but the benefits would be huge. A doctor that:
- Gets “it”
- Can relate and knows exactly what a low feeling is like
- One that had been in the trenches
- Can warn you about gushers
- Silently nods when you talk about the 340 to 40 to 250 to 125 roller coaster
- Isn’t shy about padding the prescription a tiny bit to help with copays
- Doesn’t berate you for that 7.6 A1c
I would seriously pay extra for a doctor that understands what living with diabetes really means. Would you?
I agree! I would love to Tristan’s endo to be a diabetic. But not just a diabetic, once that had it as a child. That could provide me with more “personal” experiences. Understand more what I’m going through trying to off the roller coaster. Or, give me an endo who has a diabetic child. But I can’t complain too much, Tristan’s diabetes education is diabetic and her daughter was diagnosed less than 1 year ago.
I think that she understand a lot more than the endo. She’s also a lot easier on us than the endo! It seems like the endo looks at the numbers… the science behind it. She…. well she looks at everything else that comes into play!