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I was diagnosed with diabetes in August 1998.
I became a member of Kaiser in 2001.
She always has been a caregiver so she
took care of everybody except herself.
I was very stressed out.
I could tell my sugar levels were high.
I knew something was wrong with my physical being.
I was getting up three times a night to go use the restroom and
I was feeling really fatigued, I'd go home and sleep,
I could start feeling my feet tingling.
When I walked into the exam room she was crying.
I do not like this.
Let me show you how it's done.
Most of the time they feel that they're a failure,
it's very important for us nurses,
especially with diabetic patients that before we go into
teaching them to learn how to take insulin we first tackle and
take care of the barriers that may inhibit us to be
able to give the proper instructions.
She just was able to read me to see I was nervous,
I said this is not going to be okay with me,
needles are not okay with me.
I showed her this is how it goes,
the needle is very short and it's very sharp,
you won't even feel it and she looked at me like, really?
Pick up your pretend stomach, clean it with alcohol.
This is really uncomfortable.
She just was so informative and so patient with me
that I was able to do it.
Push it in.
Oh this is easy.
Take it out.
You're done.
Oh, amazing.
Leaving Kaiser, I said, I can do it now,
I can go home and do it.
Thank you so much.
You're very welcome.
Patients, especially with diabetes,
they should try to look into insulin use before automatically
just saying that's not for me, I don't want to do it.
There's people out there who fear needles and they just don't
want to be on injections but you know it's going to save your
life, it's going to make you feel healthier
and you're going to live longer.
I'm doing my injections and I'm okay with my body.
I'm in harmony thanks to Kaiser.