Comment by ahoka
3 hours ago
I stopped reading where he just googled what can be wrong with his life support medical aid instead of calling some kind of support line.
3 hours ago
I stopped reading where he just googled what can be wrong with his life support medical aid instead of calling some kind of support line.
I’ve called my father’s insulin pump customer support number once before and the medical advice they gave us would have endangered his life if I had carried it out (according to his GP, whom we called after to confirm).
The author is a woman. She does call a support line during the course of all of this. The support line was fairly unhelpful.
the support line did everything she asked, and explicitly asked if she already had a backup plan in place, to which the author said "yes".
the author admits to not even asking for the pump to be sent directly to her.
the author admits to even ignoring the internet advice to call support, then gets mad that she wasted insulin while doing so
"I will probably also be meaner to everyone who gets me on the phone in the future during an emergency. I was trying specifically to not do that, but I suppose it's helpful to be mean when your medical equipment is failing."
advocating for yourself is not being mean
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