{"id":2686,"date":"2005-07-06T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T22:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/brittle-diabeti\/"},"modified":"2005-07-06T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T22:55:14","slug":"brittle-diabeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/brittle-diabeti\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brittle&#8221; Diabetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new commenter brought up the term &#8220;brittle&#8221; diabetic.  Well, it reminded me of a comment today.<\/p>\n<p>I just posted about how I hate teacher workshops, that sitting in one place all day always makes my blood sugar go up and that I&#8217;ve finally figured out that maybe 30%+ temporary basal might handle it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today, I didn&#8217;t have the pump cranked up high enough, so I was doing lots of corrections and lots of testing.  Finally, middle of the afternoon, the person next to me asked if I were a &#8220;level 3&#8221; diabetic.<\/p>\n<p>So I took a moment to explain that sitting still made me blood sugar go up, and makes me extremely ill when it does, so I was trying to keep it low.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got two days of workshops coming up in two weeks, and I&#8217;m planning on upping the temporary basal to 30%+  That means I&#8217;m going to have to do a lot of testing, just to make sure I don&#8217;t over do it.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder what the person next to me will come up this time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new commenter brought up the term &#8220;brittle&#8221; diabetic. Well, it reminded me of a comment today. I just posted about how I hate teacher workshops, that sitting in one place all day always makes my blood sugar go up and that I&#8217;ve finally figured out that maybe 30%+ temporary basal might handle it. Well, [&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-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}