{"id":867,"date":"2010-05-22T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=867"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:37","slug":"a-tough-thing-to-hear-the-d-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"A Tough Thing To Hear; The &#8216;D&#8217; Word."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Tuesday, I stopped by my doctor&#8217;s office to have a TB test. While there I asked for a few minutes with my doctor to discuss recent lab blood work results.<br \/>The office called last Friday notifying me that my lab tests indicated signs of renal failure; the &#8216;D&#8217; word was mentioned&#8230;<br \/>Dr. Jordon made time for me immediately and gave me her undivided attention.<br \/>The verdict?<br \/>Yep&#8211;Diabetes.<br \/>The &#8216;D&#8217; word has been dogging me for years. The thought of it drove me to Weight Watcher&#8217;s a few years ago. After losing 25 lbs. I simply became lazy and fell into cahoots with old gluttony once again:(<br \/>Gulp. <br \/>The kidneys are hit hard with high blood pressure, carrying too much weight,&nbsp; loving sweets in excess. <br \/>My walking, which my doctor loves (and I enjoy!), simply cannot overcome all that. Walking is a diabetics best friend, but losing weight is equally important.<br \/>So, what will I do with this diagnosis?<\/p>\n<p>I need to change.<br \/>I have a sugar addiction.<br \/>God, this is hard. Help me with self control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Tuesday, I stopped by my doctor&#8217;s office to have a TB test. While there I asked for a few minutes with my doctor to discuss recent lab blood work results.The office called last Friday notifying me that my lab tests indicated signs of renal failure; the &#8216;D&#8217; word was mentioned&#8230;Dr. Jordon made time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}