comments on "needle" versus "oral medications"...

______I had a conversation with a Diabetes Educator and a fellow Type Two. This woman muttered "I don’t want to go on the needle".
______I replied "me neither".
______The Diabetes Educator said in a very earnest voice "I’m not a diabetic but if I were, I would skip the pills and go straight to injected insulin".
______When I told my diabetics coach yesterday, I said "she is not a diabetic and doesn’t understand the fear of having to use the needle for the rest of my life. I don’t want to use the needle until I’ve tried everything else".
______She commented that "the needle" isn’t such a bad fate. Sorry but I don’t agree and want to keep from having to use injected insulin for as long as I can.