{"id":34740,"date":"2013-12-06T09:21:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=34740"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:20","slug":"my-blood-sugar-is-none-of-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=34740","title":{"rendered":"My Blood Sugar Is None of Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes, I find myself getting angry and annoyed when others look at my blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c256? Is that good or bad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOh man, you\u2019re 61? You need to take some insulin right now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By making these seemingly innocent comments, people manage to simultaneously violate my privacy as well as sound ignorant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/My-Blood-Sugar-Is-None-of-Your-Business.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34741 lazyload\" title=\"My Blood Sugar Is None of Your Business\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/My-Blood-Sugar-Is-None-of-Your-Business.jpg\" alt=\"My Blood Sugar Is None of Your Business\" width=\"500\" height=\"537\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/My-Blood-Sugar-Is-None-of-Your-Business.jpg 500w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/My-Blood-Sugar-Is-None-of-Your-Business-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don\u2019t have these feelings because I am ashamed of my diabetes. I don\u2019t know what life is like without it, so I\u2019ve had many years to come to terms with the impact it has on me on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rather, I think it\u2019s more of a defense mechanism. When I see my friends or family craning their necks to look at the number on my meter, I tend to prevent them from seeing by cradling my hands around the meter or lifting it up so I am the only one who can read it. That way, I can react to my blood sugar on my own terms without having to worry about how someone else feels about it. I appreciate that I\u2019m surrounded by people who genuinely care about my health, but just because my loved ones are aware of my diabetes doesn\u2019t make them experts. In some instances, my friends have been so concerned about a slightly hypoglycemic blood sugar that they kept a closer monitor on my sugars than I did for the next couple hours. I hope I don\u2019t sound ungrateful for their support, but my goodness, it\u2019s tiring to have to deal with multiple reactions to my own blood sugars. I\u2019m the one who has to deal with them, and that\u2019s enough for me to handle at any given time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On that note, I think that my defensive nature applies to myself, not just others. I am protective of myself because I like to test my blood sugar and analyze my feelings and what actions I should take once I know the number. When I can focus on this on my own, I have a greater understanding of how my body reacts in certain situations and what kinds of preventive or corrective measures I need to take in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess what I\u2019m wondering here is whether or not any other people with diabetes also feel this compulsion to keep their numbers private. Am I being too sensitive? Is it natural for me to want to tell others that my blood sugars are none of their business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":34741,"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>My Blood Sugar Is None of Your Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sometimes, I find myself getting angry and annoyed when others look at my blood sugar. \u201c256? 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