{"id":873,"date":"2010-11-09T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/having-diabetes-sucks\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:34:08","slug":"having-diabetes-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/having-diabetes-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Diabetes Sucks #dblogday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was diagnosed with diabetes at the beginning of the school year, 2002.  At the time, apparently my pancreas completely failed, because no amount of oral meds helped.  Went on insulin pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Have been on an insulin pump since 2004.  It\u2019s made a huge improvement on my life, but it still sucks.<\/p>\n

I have to think about everything bit I eat, bolus for it, test for it two hours later.  Though it has made me a bit healthier.<\/p>\n

While it would be nice there was a cure, especially for Type 1.  I doubt there will be one any soon for someone like me, who has genetic Type 2 and has trouble dealing with their weight and other issues.<\/p>\n

Here are my 6 things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Diabetes often gets in the way of the things I want to do.  It makes me tired, it makes me hard to get along with.<\/li>\n
  2. I x-th that it is a Time Thief.  Adding time to meals, stealing time to test, etc.  Oh, and then there\u2019s the doctor\u2019s visits.<\/li>\n
  3. It\u2019s a money thief.  Even with insurance, the out of pocket costs are horrible.<\/li>\n
  4. It\u2019s painful.  From blood tests to insulin injections to site insertions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Okay, today I can only do 4.<\/p>\n

    Wonder if diabetes is causing the writer's block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was diagnosed with diabetes at the beginning of the school year, 2002.  At the time, apparently my pancreas completely failed, because no amount of oral meds helped.  Went on insulin pretty quickly. Have been on an insulin pump since 2004.  It\u2019s made a huge improvement on my life, but it still sucks. I have […]<\/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-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}