It is way past time to put a lock on this, if not simply delete a lot of it outright and then lock the rest.
My father lived with diabetes for nearly 20 years with no real complaints other than some disscussion with those involved of the matter of fact necessities of dealing with it. I also had another relative by marriage that lived with it for quite a number of years, again without making big issues of things. I have also heard others carry on like their world had ended. News flash! We were not promised a trouble free existance. Life has problems. Deal with it.
I do not believe that anybody's disease is supposed to give them a free pass for either stupid and irrational behavior or whiney mouthing off about how pathetic they are and that the world should change its point of rotation so that it revolves around them. There are probably a lot of people out there traveling and trying to avoid being an imposition to others that are in much worse condition than the main complainer here.
I could say more, but I am trying to remain minimally polite here.
And minimally polite you've been indeed!
Your personal awarenes of two isolated cases of diabetics and their handling of this life threatening condition gives you authority enough to judge? My mother is diabetic and not able to easily handle her blood sugars and after working for 11 years as an ICU nurse where at any given moment approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of the patients have some degree of diabetes with complications like coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease that frequently leads to amputation, blindness, kidney disease, and stroke, I am quite familiar with the extreme range of different diabetics' bodies being able to tolerate or not tolerate varying levels of blood sugar. For some their sugars are easily managed with little to no variance, others can tolerate incredibly high or low blood sugars with no obvious distress, while others are not so lucky and slide into a coma with the same blood sugar level that other diabetics don't even call out sick from work over. Some diabetics are extremely sensitive to insulin treatment and oral medications and the same dose that barely effects one patient will sometimes kill another and for others their reactions are never the same twice.
I'm surviving reasonably well with AIDS that I contracted in 1979 when I was 17 years old before it was even identified, am quite self sufficient and not an imposition on anyone and am familiar with issues surrounding survival of a long term managable illness. Your post reminds me that prejudice, judgemental attitudes, and misinformation are ugly, unnecessary hurtles people like me and Mr Sims face. I don't ask for special treatment until it's absolutely warranted but I'll be damned if I'll be targeted to suffer uncalled for consequences BECAUSE of my diagnosis. Being thrown off a train for being accused of harassment for venturing away from a seat I was assigned to that forced me to walk past aggressive passengers who verbally insisted on trying to engage me in argument and eventually threatened me physically for ignoring their jabs, is alot harder on my body than the average person's. This hardship must be considered especially when I'm aware of other options that weren't even considered, and when there was plenty of support for my overall unoffensive demeanor from other passengers and even other Amtrak staff who'd travelled from Chicago with me that the new conductors refused to even hear! Although I tried, I wasn't even permitted to defend myself or express my legitimate fear after being threatened to be thrown down the stairs by a passenger who'd self appointed himself to dictate my seating, patrol my confinement to it, and threaten physical punishment on me if I were to leave it despite the conductor's reluctant brief agreement to allow me freedom to move about the train.
If Mr Sims was subjected to anything close to this I can understand how he panicked and was given no way to avoid trouble once the ball was rolling so I feel for the guy and know all too well how impossible it can be to even be given a fair shake with a conductor throwing around inflammatory accusations of drunkeness, harassment, & stench that a train full of strangers have only limited reason not to believe.