The way a nurse responded to my diabetes left me reeling

The only thing that surprised me more about her response to my condition was what happened after I tweeted about it, writes James Moore

NHS waiting lists are currently 7.6 million – the highest since records began in 2007 (Jeff Moore/PA) (PA Wire)

A recent conversation with a diabetes specialist nurse (note that word, “specialist”) came as something of an unpleasant surprise.

“I have a problem,” I said. “My blood sugars are surging in the heat.” She looked at me. “Blood sugar levels go down in the heat,” she said, matter of fact. I stared back, all too aware of the way the autoimmune condition – type 1 diabetes – I’ve had since the age of two has been affecting me. “But mine goes up,” I told her. “It always has.”

What came next left me reeling: “You’re wrong,” she said. “Blood sugar levels go down in the heat.”