{"id":594,"date":"2012-12-26T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/2012-is-the-year-i-came-out-completely\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:58:28","slug":"2012-is-the-year-i-came-out-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/2012-is-the-year-i-came-out-completely\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 is the year I came out completely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This post is my December entry in the DSMA Blog Carnival.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to participate too, you can get all of the information at <a href=\"http:\/\/diabetessocmed.com\/2012\/december-dsma-blog-carnival-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/diabetessocmed.com\/2012\/december-dsma-blog-carnival-2\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though there are a few people who probably think I had already come out of the closet as a diabetic.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I realized that I was not doing a good job controlling my diabetes.  I used to do a good job.  I used to rarely miss blood sugar checks and rarely missed boluses (oh, that reminds me, I&#8217;m drinking a mocha I haven&#8217;t bloused for yet \u2013 just a sec)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I decided to train my youngest beagle to be a diabetes alert dog.  By the way \u2013 typical time at the gym after not doing a good job bolusing for lunch: dog is very agitated and won&#8217;t relax for the first 10 minutes, then she settles \u2013 bet you money if I tested I&#8217;d be back in range.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I used to try to hide my pump.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, I walk into the gym with the dog and she is agitated and I explain that yes, she is agitated because my blood sugar is up and she&#8217;ll settle when it is better.  I wear my pump outside my clothing and carry my meter where I can reach it easily.  No more hiding.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My A1C has come down as a result.  I&#8217;m not there yet, I still miss some boluses, I still miss some checks, but it&#8217;s getting better.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is my December entry in the DSMA Blog Carnival.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to participate too, you can get all of the information at http:\/\/diabetessocmed.com\/2012\/december-dsma-blog-carnival-2\/ Though there are a few people who probably think I had already come out of the closet as a diabetic. I realized that I was not doing a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}