{"id":3395,"date":"2004-06-24T06:58:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T06:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/this-is-how-i-e\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T06:58:14","slug":"this-is-how-i-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/this-is-how-i-e\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how I ended up paying out of pocket for my pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Health Care Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewholt.net\/\/2004_06_20_archive.html#108802552351524811\">The Health Care Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t care to go back to the archives, a short recap &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor and I decided that I should go on the pump because I was gaining weight on MDI and had what I felt was inadequate control with shots.<\/p>\n<p>It was the right decision, but the idiot HMO said, NO, you have to throw all the diabetes meds in the world at her in combination before we&#8217;ll approve it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d had my full of diabetes drugs after the first one, and besides, insulin really is better and the pump is the most efficient way to deliver it.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, I&#8217;ve been steadily losing weight again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Care Blog If you don&#8217;t care to go back to the archives, a short recap &#8230;. My doctor and I decided that I should go on the pump because I was gaining weight on MDI and had what I felt was inadequate control with shots. It was the right decision, but the idiot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","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=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}