{"id":16487,"date":"2011-05-24T01:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=16487"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:25","slug":"climb-back-in-climb-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=16487","title":{"rendered":"Climb Back In, Climb Back Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Getting back into climbing is like getting back into anything, I suppose. \u00a0You decide you\u2019re going to do it and you throw yourself back into it. \u00a0You lower your standards for your performance and you cut yourself some slack and you just <em>try<\/em>. \u00a0Or at least that\u2019s what I do.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new bouldering gym opened near my house and it\u2019s changed my Seattle life for the better. \u00a0Climbing is a sport that has challenged me to get over myself and truly just try. \u00a0I had gone climbing several times in the last several years, but I really started putting consistent effort into it a couple weeks after my diagnosis in March of 2010. \u00a0I threw myself into a class and I threw myself into a community of people and I threw myself into a \u201cdangerous\u201d sport to counteract the \u201cdangerous\u201d diagnosis I had just received. \u00a0(Hey. \u00a0We all grieve in different ways.) \u00a0It was then that I was honored to start writing for <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/author\/emily\/\">asweetlife.org<\/a> and it was through these foggy, groggy chunks of time that I was able to start processing what it meant to live with diabetes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Climbing became a big part of my life and even a metaphor for navigating my path with Type I. \u00a0I respect the sport a great deal, just as I do people who climb, and people who happen to prick their fingers before climbing. \u00a0I\u2019ve made good friends over juice boxes and I\u2019ve gotten to know the gym staff by asking\u2013every single time upon entering the gym\u2013if my bag of emergency supplies is behind the front desk. \u00a0It\u2019s amazing to me the ways that climbing and blogging and diabetes have overlapped and interwoven to create a life of earnest reflection for me.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And, in honor of those first climbing days, those first writing days, those first finger-pricking days, I present you with a little piece of history:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A <a title=\"Climbing Documentary for Grandma 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vs6m26LJhtQ\" target=\"_blank\">documentary<\/a> we made for my grandma, who had no concept of rock climbing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vs6m26LJhtQ[\/youtube]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And a few shots of what this new gym has allowed me to contemplate:<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/emily\/blogs\/personal-blogs\/climb-back-in-climb-back-up\/16487\/attachment\/copy-of-p1010172\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16489\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Copy-of-P1010172-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Copy-of-P1010163-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/emily\/blogs\/personal-blogs\/climb-back-in-climb-back-up\/16487\/attachment\/copy-of-p1010193\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16494\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Copy-of-P1010193-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/emily\/blogs\/personal-blogs\/climb-back-in-climb-back-up\/16487\/attachment\/copy-of-p1010185\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16515\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Copy-of-P1010185-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The holds are brand new, but the reaching is familiar. \u00a0The floors are clean, but my shoes are nice and chalky. \u00a0The front desk staff members are different in name, but love juice boxes all the same. \u00a0(Seriously, what is it about juice boxes that gets twenty-somethings all excited?) \u00a0Thank you, Grandma, for asking me to explain the climbing thing. \u00a0Now, if I could just explain this diabetes thing\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[1067,126,1391,1068],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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