D-Blog Week: Share and Don't Share.

Share and Don't Share:  Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives are really like. Today, let’s pretend our medical team is reading our blogs. What do you wish they could see about your and/or your loved one's daily life with diabetes? On the other hand, what do you hope they don't see? "I'm sorry," "thank you," and "please" are the thematic statements of every endocrinologist appointment I have.  "Thank you."  You're great.  You really are.  I've been a patient of yours for years now and your patience for your patients knows no bounds. You're also smart, as you've been dealing with adults with type 1 for a long time, and you rarely view my diabetes as something that happens outside of the context of all the other stuff in my life.  "You don't live in a vacuum," and I always laugh in my head because I picture Henry the Vacuum, and it's a hard mental image to shake.  You don't give me the stink eye when I tell you I don't have weeks worth of logbooks available, but you do make me own the fact that you need at least two weeks of certain numbers (fastings, before meals, before bed) to make assessments of my blood sugar needs.  Accountability helps, and I at least know what the bare minimum data points that you need are.  And because of your prowess when it comes to type 1 d...
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