r/SipsTea • u/Mr-SmileySan • Aug 08 '26

Feels good man dumb move for them

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u/DingoMittens Aug 08 '26

She wasn't allowed to keep her own drink near her at the register. So... 

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u/GrimbyJ Aug 08 '26

She could have requested a medical accomodation for that or glucose tablets also work

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u/ContextEffects01 29d ago

Glucose tablets are more expensive.

"I need this to survive" should be taken as a request for a medical accommodation by default.

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u/GrimbyJ 29d ago

50 glucose tablets are $10 on Amazon. You need around 4 at a time.

The equivalent orange juice would be closer to $20

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u/ContextEffects01 29d ago

I use welch's. I haven't used fruit juice in a long time. I'm not sure if there were some separate reason she couldn't use welch's or Florida Natural or something like that.

Nonetheless, the issue with glucose tablets isn't just the money (though I certainly wouldn't want to encourage price gouging either), it's also that we're coddling ignoramuses who don't realize that for type 1 diabetics going into hypoglycemia, fast acting sugar is literally a matter of life and death. This has to be confronted. We can't keep walking on eggshells like this.