{"id":1682,"date":"2007-06-27T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/beyond-were-ali\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:07:13","slug":"beyond-were-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/beyond-were-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond We&#8217;re Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some one on the insulin pumpers list posted today emphasizing that while there isn&#8217;t a cure, diabetics are living longer.  the post pointed out that before 1920, Type 1 was a death sentence.<br \/>\nI can relate and probably more intimately.  My father and I were diagnosed in the same birth year.<br \/>\nHe was sent home with urine test strips amd told not to eat sugar.  His pilot&#8217;s license was revoked.<br \/>\nI have choices and technology he didn&#8217;t have, 25 years later.  There are oral meds, injectables, and the insulin pump to choose from.<br \/>\nAnd now there is CGMS.<br \/>\nSo far I have remained active and able to do what I want.  At this stage, my father was housebond, on oxygen, with congestive heart failure.<br \/>\niA big positive difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some one on the insulin pumpers list posted today emphasizing that while there isn&#8217;t a cure, diabetics are living longer. the post pointed out that before 1920, Type 1 was a death sentence. I can relate and probably more intimately. My father and I were diagnosed in the same birth year. He was sent home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}