{"id":668,"date":"2012-08-08T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/understanding-not-taking-care-of-yourself\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T11:27:50","slug":"understanding-not-taking-care-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/understanding-not-taking-care-of-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding not taking care of yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been through several years of diabetic burnout now.&#160; I\u2019ve getting better, but I\u2019m still missing some finger sticks \u2013 last night was a good example \u2013 why finger stick, I know my blood sugar is too high, I don\u2019t really want to correct as I\u2019m away from home, only have Dulce to help me, and I don\u2019t want to go low in the night.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Lots of those scripts go through my head.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I just get really busy.&#160; I\u2019m going through a normal teaching day and I\u2019m too lazy to pull the meter out of my bag.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I forget to put the meter in my bag.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I forget to put extra test strips in my bag and run out.<\/p>\n<p>But the real reason really has to do with a lot of denial, a lot of depression, and a lot of resignation.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>BEING DIABETIC isn\u2019t fun.&#160; In fact, it can be painful, it can be awkward and it just isn\u2019t a fun lifestyle at all.<\/p>\n<p>Training and traveling with Dulce is helping me get a handle on it, but I\u2019m not perfect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been through several years of diabetic burnout now.&#160; I\u2019ve getting better, but I\u2019m still missing some finger sticks \u2013 last night was a good example \u2013 why finger stick, I know my blood sugar is too high, I don\u2019t really want to correct as I\u2019m away from home, only have Dulce to help me, [&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-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}