{"id":1805,"date":"2007-03-13T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/more-on-tough-c\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:30:27","slug":"more-on-tough-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/more-on-tough-c\/","title":{"rendered":"More on "Tough Call""},"content":{"rendered":"

 It’s Lori’s original post that got me on this.  And she makes a very good point.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what to think about finding out that I am, at nearly 42, still so naive and hopeful to think that a person with diabetes can receive good medical care without being beaten or tasered or blamed for poor diabetes self-management.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Very Old, Very Healthy Diabetic<\/a> <\/p>\n

Frankly, every time I treat a potential low, someone makes me feel guilty that my diabetes self-management requires me to eat a bit of sugar.  <\/p>\n

The good news about the Portland incident, is that it is getting BOTH sides to think.  <\/p>\n

I don’t think that the police officers involved did anything wrong UNLESS it is already addressed in the policy and they acted against the policy.  However, I do think that policy DOES need to be thought about a bit harder — I used to help with that sort of thing when I did K9 stuff, so I know that side.   <\/p>\n

On the other hand, I hope it is a wake up call for the patient.  If you know you get combative when you go low, you owe it to everyone around you to make sure you don’t go low.<\/p>\n

Oh, course, this is from the viewpoint of a Type 2 on an insulin pump.  Someone who hates to go low and treats a 90 blood sugar reading as a low.  However, I feel that I owe that not only to myself but everyone I’m going to encounter on the way.<\/p>\n

I am not accusing anyone of bad diabetes management — I’m just saying that perhaps her own procedures need to be reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 It’s Lori’s original post that got me on this.  And she makes a very good point. I’m not sure what to think about finding out that I am, at nearly 42, still so naive and hopeful to think that a person with diabetes can receive good medical care without being beaten or tasered or blamed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}