This is what her doctor told her when she said she wanted to go and see an endocrinologist. He said; 'You will just make a fool of yourself".

It seems that, because she's morbidly obese, and he's convinced that if she lost weight, (and she won't do this), that THIS IS WHY SHE IS DIABETIC.

So he has no patience with her. She watched the video. She won't call up any diabetic educator or anything like that. And her husband won't let her take the insulin until Monday because as he put it, "what if you get a reaction over the weekend".

I told her to contact her health care provider, the Lantus people, etc, to get further information and this would make her more comfortable with the whole injectible pen thing.

But, it's her body, her insulin and her husband. But if my husband ever told me not to take a med, he'd be eating his dinner in the bathroom.

Her doctor, well, it's appalling what he said to her. I asked her 'do you think it was acceptable of him to speak to you this way?' and she said: "oh he always does this".

So I gather she is used to him.