Our regional news station — TXCN — has been running a story on Diabetes Discrimination. I haven’t seen a web link to this case, but basically an older man was not hired because the hiring company determined that his diabetes was under poor control. Basically he had sugar in a urine test, couldn’t remember his doctor’s name and didn’t know his last A1C results.
Frankly, that fits my definition of poor control, but the good news for diabetics in Texas, is that the work place can’t discriminate based on that. That makes me feel a bit better, because WHILE I have pretty good control most of the time, I’ve had a few incidents each year since diagnosis where at the moment, my diabetes was out of control and it has disrupted my classroom.