{"id":76265,"date":"2009-12-11T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/46570-hello-from-south-louisiana.html"},"modified":"2009-12-11T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:17:28","slug":"hello-from-south-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/76265","title":{"rendered":"Hello from South Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello.  Name is Daniel Trahan.  <\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed this past September after being admitted to the ER for severe food poisoning.  Came as a surprise but looking back I see all of the signs that pointed to it (lost 45lbs in 6 months, drinking water like crazy and eating everything in sight).  My BG that night was 398mg\/dl and my A1C was 13.8.  Realized right then that I had to just get up and take on this new challenge, that feeling sorry wasn&#8217;t going to do anything for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just trying to take everything in right now, learning all that I can.  My BG&#8217;s have dropped signficantly since being diagnosed and put on Apidra\/Lantus.  My endo has said that I should be ready for a pump fairly soon so going through the whole research process now.<\/p>\n<p>While I know that this will never go away, I look forward to getting to the point where diabetes is only a background problem.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello. Name is Daniel Trahan. I was diagnosed this past September after being admitted to the ER for severe food poisoning. Came as a surprise but looking back I see all of the signs that pointed to it (lost 45lbs in 6 months, drinking water like crazy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76265","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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}