{"id":3542,"date":"2004-04-05T04:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/expert-patient\/"},"modified":"2004-04-05T04:43:51","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:43:51","slug":"expert-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/expert-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"

See Expert Patients<\/a><\/p>\n

Several of the doctor medlogs have blogged on this issue. <\/p>\n

I consider myself an “expert patient” and I agree that it’s a misleading term, as it implies to me, that it might be derogatory.<\/p>\n

There are two types of diabetic patients (and I am not referring to Type 1 or Type 2). They either fall under the expert patient category taking an active roll in their care. If you pump, you almost always have to be an expert patient.<\/p>\n

The other type eat when and what their doctors tell them to. Can you imagine living a life where you eat at, say 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm, and they eat a precise amount of servings of carbs, protein and fat.<\/p>\n

I actually know of a pumper that lives that way. My mother told me about her. Apparently years ago, her pump was programmed by her doctor and she has lived that way ever since. <\/p>\n

I suppose that might work for someone who has been diabetic all of their life, but it certainly doesn’t and wouldn’t work for me! It really puts a crimp in your style if you want to socialize — which is when my mother found out about this.<\/p>\n

I really advocate being on top and in control whenever you have a chronic illness. That CPAP go around is a prime example though, of what happens when the patient is ready to be an expert and the doctors aren’t <\/p>\n

And of course to be effective as an expert patient, you have to research it all. Not just the advances, but the costs and the implications. <\/p>\n

FYI: One of the good things about buying the pump last year, is that it, along with my husband’s medical bills, managed to reduce our income tax overage from $1500 to $750, and eliminated the possiblilty of a fine for the IRS for underpaying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See Expert Patients Several of the doctor medlogs have blogged on this issue. I consider myself an “expert patient” and I agree that it’s a misleading term, as it implies to me, that it might be derogatory. There are two types of diabetic patients (and I am not referring to Type 1 or Type 2). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","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=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}