{"id":92144,"date":"2009-12-21T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/46870-denial-a-poweful-enemy.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:37:10","slug":"denial-a-poweful-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92144","title":{"rendered":"Denial A Poweful Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This is a rant of sorts and a wake up for others.  Sorry for the length&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Let me begin by saying I was a healthy child, healthy adult. I may have been to the doc 5 times in 30 yrs, unitl I turned 50yrs old.  I was 6&#8217;1&quot; 260lbs most of my life since 10th grade in high school and strong as an Ox, slightly over weight and ate everything and anything that was in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I walked 20 miles a week for years.  She then had medical problems of her own and the walking subsided.  It was during this time I think my BG started to climb.  Doc says I had D for approx 3-5 years with out being Dx.  All the rest happened in a short 18 months of my life, as I look back I still can&#8217;t believe this all took place.  <\/p>\n<p>It all started with a MRSA infection on my leg.  I went into DKA twice, the Docs at the med center took my blood and said it was 250, this was after loosing fluids out of every orifice I own for 48 hrs before I could get to the med center.  Of course denial is a powerful enemy and I brushed it off.  I went thru 3 different antibiotics for a month.  The yeast infection was some kinda fun, both ears, throat mouth, and yes I even had it where any man doesn&#8217;t want a yeast infection. <\/p>\n<p>I finally went to the Doc after eating nothing but eggs and slim jims for a week and my BG was 350, and my BP was 220\/110.  He put me on MET and BP meds.  Thats when the rest of the fun began.<\/p>\n<p>We have a very small manufacturing process that requires lots of hand work.  Needless to say I had Neuropthy so bad in my hands I had to tape popsicle sticks to my fingers and wear a wrist brace on both hands, couldn&#8217;t move them with out some really outrageous pain. I was a sight to see, Edward Scissors Hands comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Two ear aches followed, one in my left ear, so severe I lost partial hearing.  Weeks later in my right ear, (inner ear) this one gave me vertigo so bad I layed on the floor for hours just dry heaving after I lost everything in my stomach.  Not long after that my back was tightening up, so I had my wife walk on my back as she had done for years.  Got a broken rib out of the deal. Next was the chest pain I was having when we did try to walk.  I endured the chest pain for 9 months or so.  Again, denial is a powerful enemy.  Wife convinced me to see a Cardiologist, and within 5 days I had open heart surgery.  All this because I was to thick headed to see a Doc early on. I am a new man these days, denial has been beaten, I hope.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rant of sorts and a wake up for others. Sorry for the length&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Let me begin by saying I was a healthy child, healthy adult. I may have been to the doc 5 times in 30 yrs, unitl I turned 50yrs old. I was 6&#8217;1&quot; 260lbs most of my life since 10th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92144","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}