Last year I went to a diabetes conference sponsored by AstraZenca. At the time I was still using old, faulty, CGMS technology and a service dog.
Yesterday, a social media site posted a picture from that conference with some really nasty comments on the picture. Two different people found me from the picture and let me know.
Here is the thing — if you just bring something like that up to someone without telling them you did something about, yes, you too are cyber bullying. The first posted as a comment to a Facebook public post. The second reached me via messenger and she did say she asked Facebookto pull it.
First, the service dog in question has worked as a diabetes alert dog in my classroom and when I was out in about. She has had only one issue in public and it has been solved. We were at Love Field when a guide dog attacked her. As a result, for a while she would not tolerate other service dogs around us, but we trained and fixed that.
At the conference, she reminded at least one participant that they had forgot to bolus for a meal.
She has flown several times, gone to lots of conferences and teacher training with no issue. I stopped using her when they upgraded my technology to some that works most of the time. I may be losing that technology in January with my insurance. Waiting for the state legislature to stop worrying about bathrooms and to fix real problems like baiting and switching their teacher retirees.
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