{"id":90268,"date":"2009-12-19T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T20:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/46822-really-bummed-out.html"},"modified":"2009-12-19T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T20:43:36","slug":"really-bummed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/90268","title":{"rendered":"Really bummed out  :("},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am Type 2, diagnosed in 2003 and for a long time I did not have good control.  Then I found this forum and a couple of others and learned so much from kind people there.  I&#8217;m now on the OmniPod and my last A1C was 6.2% down from 8.5.  I&#8217;ve really struggled to gain halfway decent control and now I feel like I am losing that control.<\/p>\n<p>I contracted an ear infection due to a pseudomonas bacteria that found its way to my weak ear.  I&#8217;ve been seeing a local ENT and have been on IV meds since Oct 1.  Now my ENT Dr. is sending me to UW hospital @ Madison, WI and I&#8217;m really bummed out.  If I require a mastoid surgery, how does the Dr. control my blood glucose before, during and after surgery?  It seems that so many health professionals are not familiar with insulin pumps or CGMS (and I have the Dexcom 7+).<\/p>\n<p>Please help&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Type 2, diagnosed in 2003 and for a long time I did not have good control. Then I found this forum and a couple of others and learned so much from kind people there. I&#8217;m now on the OmniPod and my last A1C was 6.2% down from 8.5. I&#8217;ve really struggled to gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90268","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}