Last week a safety rep for a trade came onto my site (I'm the site safety and first aid). He came into my office for an orientation and we got to chatting as we safety sleuths do and he mentioned how he was having trouble with his leg.
I said "that's not good did you hurt yourself?" He says check this out and lifts up his pant leg revealing.... a metal leg. So I say "oh dang thats shiny, if you don't mind me asking what happened?" I shot you not he says "the diabetes got me".
I burst out laughing (which obviously I felt bad because he didnt look impressed) and explained I was t1 which he then gave me huge grin and then goes to explain he was a classic example of neuropathy from not checking his BG, got a cut, got infected, amputated. We chatted for a bit about it and how he was getting a bendy model in the new year etc
I just never thought I'd actually see it in real life.
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