{"id":75351,"date":"2009-12-10T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/46559-there-new-bear-town.html"},"modified":"2009-12-10T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:45:18","slug":"there-is-a-new-bear-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/75351","title":{"rendered":"There Is A New Bear In Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hello, my friends.<\/p>\n<p><b>Basic Intro Info<\/b><br \/>\n61 year young male.<br \/>\nOperations Manager of a large distribution center.<br \/>\nMore than a tad overweight.<br \/>\nMarried.<br \/>\nSon and his family live in suburban Portland, OR.<br \/>\nThis Bear resides in NW Ohio.<br \/>\nFighting Hodgkin&#8217;s Lymphoma since early 1996.<br \/>\nMonths of radiation treatments. (1996, 1997)<br \/>\nChemotherapy. (2004, 2005)<br \/>\nHigh-dose chemotherapy. (2004, 2005)<br \/>\nBone Marrow Transplant. (2005)<br \/>\nRaynaud&#8217;s Phenomenon.  (Started in 2008)<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, started to notice numbness in left foot.  It was very periodic at first, but in the last few months has been a steady sort of numb.  Went for blood sugar testing a few months ago and it was high.  More testing tomorrow (12-11-09).<\/p>\n<p>I have stopped eating chocolate.  I eat much less and am starting to lose some weight.<\/p>\n<p>However, I drink orange juice and hot tea with honey.  I am guessing that those choices are risky.  In my internet search for answers about those &quot;usuals&quot; for me I discovered this Forum.<\/p>\n<p>I have only been on the Forum for about 30 minutes, so please do not slam my very obvious lack of knowledge about all things diabetic.<br \/>\n_____<\/p>\n<p>Less-important thingys&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Love music, especially loud rock and roll.<br \/>\nLibertarianish leanings.<br \/>\nPublished poet.<br \/>\nDesigned (and still work on every weekend) what I consider &quot;the world&#8217;s largest hand-drawn fictional city map&quot;.<br \/>\nLove the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.<br \/>\n_____<\/p>\n<p>Bear<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my friends. Basic Intro Info 61 year young male. Operations Manager of a large distribution center. More than a tad overweight. Married. Son and his family live in suburban Portland, OR. This Bear resides in NW Ohio. Fighting Hodgkin&#8217;s Lymphoma since early 1996. Months of radiation treatments. (1996, 1997) Chemotherapy. (2004, 2005) High-dose chemotherapy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75351","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}