{"id":2673,"date":"2005-07-11T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/driving-mishaps\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:06:33","slug":"driving-mishaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/driving-mishaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Mishaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is under discussion right now, on the insulin-pumpers mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s scary that doctors don&#8217;t talk to diabetics about driving.  I check my blood sugar before driving unless I just finished eating and I&#8217;ve used checked before the meal.<\/p>\n<p>I also check frequently when making long trips, at least once an hour, as I can think of few things worse than going low while driving.  I also keep Snickers minatures in the car and use them to keep from having an emergency &#8212; they are about 5 grams of carb each of slow sugar.  I also keep a couple of bags of lifesavers in the car for fast sugar.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Diabetes Care: Diabetes and driving mishaps: frequency and correlations from a multinational survey - Original article: epidemiology\/health services\/psychosocial research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m0CUH\/is_8_26\/ai_107199672\">Diabetes Care: Diabetes and driving mishaps: frequency and correlations from a multinational survey &#8211; Original article: epidemiology\/health services\/psychosocial research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is under discussion right now, on the insulin-pumpers mailing list. It&#8217;s scary that doctors don&#8217;t talk to diabetics about driving. I check my blood sugar before driving unless I just finished eating and I&#8217;ve used checked before the meal. I also check frequently when making long trips, at least once an hour, as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}