{"id":21977,"date":"2011-11-17T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=21977"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:41:51","slug":"taking-1-in-20-personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=21977","title":{"rendered":"Taking 1-in-20 Personally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This morning when I woke up my blood sugar was 74. To some this may sound fantastic, but it actually scared me. I am one of those people who suffers from the dawn phenomenon, which oddly enough works out well with early morning running, because I like to start my run above 150. So a 74 at \u00a05:00 a.m. means I probably spent part of the night lower, much lower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I didn\u2019t really need my glucometer to tell me I was low. I could feel it. I also knew I had slept exceptionally deeply, since when I woke up I saw Adam had found his way into our bed.\u00a0 I had no idea he was there beside me. \u00a0I usually wake up a few times at night and hear Adam\u2019s footsteps before he gets to our room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve woken up with blood sugar in the 70\u2019s but with all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/jessica-apple\/blogs\/type-1-blogs\/this-diabetes-awareness-month-tell-the-world-you-arent-equal\/21428\/\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 20 talk<\/a> it hit me in a way it doesn\u2019t usually. I know I\u2019m not the only one who has been thinking about the JDRF ad and the statistic that appears in it.\u00a0 (I&#8217;m still having a hard time believing it, not because it isn\u2019t true but because of how disturbing it is.)\u00a0 But the truth is that until now I have been thinking about that statistic in terms of others, not as something that could happen to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been protecting myself, keeping myself mentally distant from it.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t exactly call it avoiding the truth, so maybe we can say I haven&#8217;t been internalizing it.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been taking it personally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonwehaveaproblemblog.com\/2011\/11\/14-world-diabetes-day-post-nhpbm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Houston\u2019s amazing post<\/a> (with the bold image she created) it brought tears to my eyes.\u00a0 Talk about making it personal.\u00a0 Living with diabetes is hard, but being the parent of a child with diabetes seems 100 times harder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I have been aware of the dangers of diabetes and its complications and have worked hard to keep my diabetes under control. I have also been aware of the dangers of hypoglycaemia, hearing different horrible stories over the years, but somehow not letting them sink in. Now it has all sunk.\u00a0 And the weight of it is kind of like I&#8217;ve just swallowed a 500 pound boulder that I can&#8217;t get rid of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The JDRF campaign may not have been directed at me, a person with type 1 diabetes, but at the general public.\u00a0 However, it has definitely had a huge effect on me, and not a pleasant one.\u00a0 Not pleasant, but necessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"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":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taking 1-in-20 Personally<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have also been aware of the dangers of hypoglycaemia, hearing different horrible stories over the years, but somehow not letting them sink in. 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