{"id":37845,"date":"2015-05-12T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=37845"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:46:52","slug":"dblogweek-day-2-keep-it-to-yourself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=37845","title":{"rendered":"#DBlogWeek Day 2 \u2013 Keep it to Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few days ago, after we put up our <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/feature\/short-and-sweet-with-karen-graffeo-creator-of-diabetes-blog-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Short and Sweet interview with Karen Graffeo<\/a>, I looked over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bittersweetdiabetes.com\/p\/2015-diabetes-blog-week-topics-posts.html\" target=\"_blank\">D blog Week topics<\/a> to see if any of them \u201cspoke\u201d to me. The first was right up my ally &#8211; I Can. But I didn\u2019t think I would have much to say about today\u2019s topic until I read <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/molly\/blogs\/life-with-diabetes\/dblogweek-day-2-keep-it-to-yourself\/37843\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molly\u2019s blog<\/a> about not discussing or posting her A1c results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason I didn\u2019t think I would have anything to say on this topic is because one of the first decisions I made when diagnosed was that I was not going to be embarrassed about anything that has to do with diabetes. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m embarrassed of plenty of things and I have many things I don\u2019t like to discuss with others, but when it comes to diabetes I feel like there is nothing to be ashamed of, success or failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I made this decision after meeting people who tested and injected in private and even some who kept their disease a secret. I decided that hiding implied that I\u2019d done something wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I started blogging on ASweetLife, I took my diabetes public. This wasn\u2019t an easy decision for me but when I made it I knew that there could be no secrets. I couldn\u2019t boast about my success (running marathons, eating low carb and just living well) with out sharing my failures. (I caught myself with a BG of 42 a few hours ago.) And I had to paint a full picture of my life with diabetes, and dealing with my A1c has always been big part of that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve posted my A1c many times on this blog, usually voicing my frustration and occasionally my satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have had results which I had a hard time sharing but doing so has always felt better than not. My A1c is far from where I would like it to be and it seems that no matter how hard I try I can\u2019t get it down for more than a quarter (three months).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, when it comes to diabetes I have no secrets. I work hard to stay alive. That\u2019s something to be proud of, not to hide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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":[817],"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>#DBlogWeek Day 2 \u2013 Keep it to Yourself<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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