{"id":187847,"date":"2010-01-16T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/47681-our-families.html"},"modified":"2010-01-16T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:32:12","slug":"our-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/187847","title":{"rendered":"Our Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last night I was reflecting on my adventures with diabetes and how lifechanging this has been.  But those changes haven&#8217;t taken place in a vacuum &#8211; my husband, Terry, has participated every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p>He got me to the hospital when I couldn&#8217;t\/wouldn&#8217;t do it for myself, and was by my side each of the three days I was there.  He was my strength in those first few massively confusing weeks when the insulin seemed so overwhelming and I was afraid to eat anything.  He gave me the courage to stop what wasn&#8217;t working (too much basal, a silly sliding scale for boluses) when my Endo wouldn&#8217;t, and got me through my first trials with carb counting.  And he has dealt with all my subsequent successes and failures with love, infinite patience, and encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder&#8230;.what has his support network been?  I know during the first weeks of my trek down this path he and my sisters were in constant contact.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m curious about your families. While they don&#8217;t have to test and medicate, like us they really <i>do<\/i> have to deal with our condition every day.  Where do they turn when they&#8217;re concerned about your diabetes?   What accomodations have they made?  Diabetes can be expensive&#8230;how do our families deal with the added financial burden?  Do you think they&#8217;ve realized any benefits (better food, more exercise, etc.)?  Or do they not seem to think about it all too much?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the ramble&#8230;you know how those 3:00 a.m. thought jags go!<\/p>\n<p>Jen<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was reflecting on my adventures with diabetes and how lifechanging this has been. But those changes haven&#8217;t taken place in a vacuum &#8211; my husband, Terry, has participated every step of the way. He got me to the hospital when I couldn&#8217;t\/wouldn&#8217;t do it for myself, and was by my side each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}