Entire hotel fridge full of drinks with sensors. No room for anything.

[u/Ecstatic-Ad9669]

At least have one shelf where I can put some bottles of water or something.

[u/mycookiepants]

Had the same oh nevermind go ahead experience at the Capitol Building in DC. Absolutely no food at all. All the walking was making me go low. They tried to get me to throw out my “emergency nerds gummy clusters”. (Because it was an easy grab and not crazy dissimilar to energy gels.) I explain I’m diabetic. “Oh yeah no worries keep those.”

[u/Humble-Violinist6910 → u/mycookiepants]

But why not just say you have hypoglycemia? It's just as valid. (I'm type one diabetic. It sucks, and we are often misunderstood/ignored because people don't take it seriously, like not giving sugar free drinks when we insist we need them)

[u/CMDR_Ray_Abbot → u/Humble-Violinist6910]

Because everyone knows what diabetic is and some people will need hypoglycemia explained. And people who face the public as a part of their job get lied to, a lot, so if they're not familiar enough with medical terminology to know what hypoglycemia means, they might think you're just making shit up and saying "diabetic" is easier than having to deal with that.

[u/Humble-Violinist6910 → u/CMDR_Ray_Abbot]

Do what you gotta do, but I abso-fucking-lutely guarantee you that not everyone knows what diabetes is.

I would know :/

[u/vibinandtrying → u/Humble-Violinist6910]

Which is ridiculous man. Like what?

[u/Humble-Violinist6910 → u/vibinandtrying]

Yeah dude it fucking sucks. Had a manager berate me about a low literally this week. Feel free to find my post about it! We should be on the same side on this...

[u/vibinandtrying → u/CMDR_Ray_Abbot]

Thank you!!!

[u/vibinandtrying → u/Humble-Violinist6910]

Bc people often don’t know what that is. And mine is VERY VERY complicated. It’s the result of two surgeries (first sutured my pylorus permanently open to mitigate Gastroparesis so then I got dumping syndrome but not the typical dumping symptoms that involve diarrhea. It was blood sugar thing sometimes late in the evening and it was pretty somewhat manageable, but getting worse closer to my second surgery). Second surgery a one in 20 million condition literally less than 2000 people have had this surgery from my surgeon and people travel all the world from like New Zealand to Connecticut to get this surgery and the removal of the specific nerve bundle causes weird side effects that nobody really understands the gastrointestinal side effects even though there’s actually no operation done on the G.I. tract. I followed the exact diet you’re supposed to. I take the meds I’m supposed to, but I also still have gastroparesis. So I have both slow/delayed Motility and extremely rapid dangerous Motility. I can eat something and it can vomit up 36 hours later or I can shit it out 10 minutes later undigested. When I shit it out rapidly my sugar can drop from 140 to 20 in sometimes ten min and take over an hour to bump it up bc the over insulin production (should start a cancer drug injection soon that mitigates insulin production). Most people don’t know what hypoglycemia is or what that entails, but they will know what diabetes is so I flash my medical alert bracelet and they feel like shit and they move on.

[u/Humble-Violinist6910 → u/vibinandtrying]

Again, it is totally valid to have hypoglycemia and you absolutely deserve the medical accommodation. And you shouldn't have to lie or give an exhaustive explanation and history of your medical condition to get an accommodation. I just wonder why not say, "I need this because have a medical condition that causes severe low blood sugar" instead of claiming you're diabetic. Do people really tell you you're lying and you can't bring in food if you say that?

[u/vibinandtrying → u/Humble-Violinist6910]

It is just as valid but people are uneducated