{"id":3947,"date":"2003-04-03T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/why-i-work-so-h\/"},"modified":"2003-04-03T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T13:33:00","slug":"why-i-work-so-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/why-i-work-so-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I work so hard on this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am around a few people who are diabetics who don’t work at hard at diabetes as I do.<\/p>\n

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So why do I?<\/p>\n

First my dad died a slow death (it took three years), which was probably painful, and was certainly frustrating. It all started with a diagnosis of diabetes. Watching him die was not fun. I remember good times during those three years, but most of them were pretty bad.<\/p>\n

Second, I am very sensitive to blood sugar variations. I have never really enjoyed alcohol, and never thought about doing drugs because I really dislike any impairment of brain function. I also dislike any impairment of vision — I drive my eye doctors nuts, because I have always been corrected to 20\/10, even though they were aiming for 20\/20 and these days I’m lucky to get 20\/30. <\/p>\n

Blood sugar variations do these things to me. <\/p>\n

When my blood sugar starts getting near 150 I start getting a bit loggy. I notice that memory is slower, and I have a little difficulty with solving complex computer programming tasks. At around 180, my vision starts blurring and solving computer programming tasks become even harder. I am a nasty, evil human being when the blood sugar goes over 250. Good news\/bad new sort of thing, I can’t see who I am being evil and nasty too.<\/p>\n

Too low isn’t much better, with the added benefit of knowing that it will kill me faster than too high .<\/p>\n

I am starting to feel better. I still feel old and decrepit but I don’t feel quite as old and decrepit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am around a few people who are diabetics who don’t work at hard at diabetes as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}