{"id":217,"date":"2017-01-12T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/havent-been-using-my-service-dog\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T09:21:23","slug":"havent-been-using-my-service-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/havent-been-using-my-service-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven&#8217;t been using my service dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough people do recognize me without her, and it still generates conversations.<\/p>\n<p>But at least they are people who have at least a nodding acquaintance with me and not total strangers.<\/p>\n<p>I started using Dulce because I couldn&#39;t control my blood sugar, it was affecting my health and it was driving her crazy.&#0160; Training her and listening to her made her a better dog.&#0160; I stopped using her for a while because I was working as a contractor and just couldn&#39;t wrap my head around making it work.&#0160; I did use her at home and for some outings.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the spring when we went to Alaska I had a nasty low with no warning and ended up eating every bit of sugar I had on me and begging people on the tour bus for more.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the new A1C of 6.4, and the new pump and CGMS sensor that actually work, Dulce is not working.&#0160; I even left her home all weekend while Summer and I went out of town.&#0160; Yes, we were only 1 and 1\/2 hours a way, and I could have come home and got her, but I foresee doing this in the future.<\/p>\n<p>She is a&#0160;lot happier and relaxed with my good A1C.&#0160; I think I&#39;m moving around better.&#0160; I actually set up jumps at agility yesterday, something I rarely have the energy to do.&#0160; I have other people say I move better too.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>But ethically, I believe its wrong to use a service dog if you don&#39;t need one.&#0160; Yes, sometimes it would make my life a bit easier if I used her &#8212; it would have been nice to go into Fry&#39;s yesterday after agility but it wasn&#39;t necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough people do recognize me without her, and it still generates conversations. But at least they are people who have at least a nodding acquaintance with me and not total strangers. I started using Dulce because I couldn&#39;t control my blood sugar, it was affecting my health and it was driving her crazy.&#0160; Training [&hellip;]<\/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-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}