T1D Gal

Represent! #4 - “Believe You” (2021)

First of all, your doctor has a waiting room full of people with health concerns. You have an illness that is probably contagious. You know you should stay home, rest, and drink water. Your doctor can do nothing for you except tell you to stay home, rest, and drink water. But instead of doing that, your employer is forcing you to bring your contagious illness to your doctor’s waiting room full of health compromised people.

Secondly, health is so subjective it’s literally impossible for doctors to give exact ranges of time. Like, if you have any specific strain of influenza (the flu) you might be sick for 3 days or you might be sick for 9 days, your doctor has no way of knowing. Plus your doctor can’t even tell which of the several strains you have, or even for sure IF you HAVE influenza and not one of the other thousand reasons you could have a fever and not feel well. Like, your doctor could find out, but it would be expensive, and a waste of time and resources, when no matter what the lab finds, the treatment is 99.999% of the time going to be stay home and rest and drink water. There is literally no way to give an exact and accurate time to your employer, and nothing your doctor can do to help you.

Lastly, by making your doctor their little enforcer, the employer is treating the doctor like some kind of junior high hall monitor, instead of a highly trained professional with better things to spend their time on. 

My computer:

a. It’s a usually much larger dose of insulin than any of our fast-acting doses, which I guess is kind of intuitive.

And

b. It has a ph of FREAKING 4!!!!!!! Our blood is neutralish, around 7.