This article in the Indianapolis Star<\/a>
\nindicates that he died of diabetic complications.<\/p>\nIt’s dangerous to assume that when someone dies of diabetic complications that the person isn’t taking care of themselves.<\/p>\n
People, even my OWN health care providers (but not the diabetic ones), often make the assumption that I don’t take care of myself.<\/p>\n
However, there is a treadmill downstairs and free weights, and I just finished over 40 minutes on the treadmill and a short weight session. <\/p>\n
My A1C ranges from 6.0 – 7.0, mostly at the lower range.<\/p>\n
I test my blood sugar over 8 times a day, and I work hard to keep it as low as I can but remain safe.<\/p>\n
You can tell from the dog photos that I’m having weight issues, and they are something I think about constantly. The weight issues interfer with my way of life and my ability to do things that I want to do.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, every one needs to be screened for diabetes, everyone at risk for diabetes needs to be educated about it and everyone needs a health care team that listens and helps them to achieve their goals. <\/p>\n
No one deserves to be blamed for their condition though. By anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That’s probably going to be in my obituary and it has been in the news lately. Amy blogged about it in talking about Luther Vandross’s death at Diabetes Mine: Salute to Luther Vandross, Divabetic It’s in the news again with Hank Stram’s passing. This article in the Indianapolis Star indicates that he died of diabetic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}