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Correction or realignment

Peppergirl

Peppergirl

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Thought about a correction dose I took earlier and felt glucose realignment sounded better than correction?
Too much time on my hands this morning. ;)
 
Hi @Peppergirl . Please check your sugars!!!!!!!!!! You sound like you may be dropping low:):):):)
You know you'll start a whole new trend with comments like " glucose realignment ".
 
therower said:
Hi @Peppergirl . Please check your sugars!!!!!!!!!! You sound like you may be dropping low:):):):)
You know you'll start a whole new trend with comments like " glucose realignment ".
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OK, I could probably have made it clearer (BTW glucose fine today). I just felt that correction sounded like I'd done something wrong, but realignment was just putting my level where it should be :) was trying to think of a better way of phrasing it.
 
@Peppergirl. Totally agree with you, realignment sounds far better than correction. As you point out you haven't done anything wrong. Glad your bloods have been good today. Still find myself smiling at the thought of you having time to come up with a new term. The type of thing I could only achieve if my sugars were low I think. Think I may take glucose realignment to my next check up.
 
I like manipulat
Jamesuk9 said:
Manipulation.......
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yeah I like manipulation. could only think of adjustment.
therower said:
@Peppergirl. Totally agree with you, realignment sounds far better than correction. As you point out you haven't done anything wrong. Glad your bloods have been good today. Still find myself smiling at the thought of you having time to come up with a new term. The type of thing I could only achieve if my sugars were low I think. Think I may take glucose realignment to my next check up.
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It's amazing that I actually wake up and smile at my libre most days now :angelic: thanks to LCHF. Still keeps me on my toes though...
 
Peppergirl said:
It's amazing that I actually wake up and smile at my libre most days now
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I do that too! One of them broke at work, jeesh, I was grieving till I got a new one on, felt like I was back in the Stone Age with strips.

Given how utterly god damned briliant the libre up/down/level direction arrow is, I think we should all honour it by saying at next checkup, " well, doctor, see there on the graph, I took a 'direction correction'. Why? (a) doctor will have never heard the term before and will panic, thinking he's not up to date. (b) it's difficult to say, so an early warning of hypo if you can't say it. (c) it rhymes!

Have read Stephen Ponder's Sugar Surfing book about using cgm. So different from DAFNE approach. Instead of saying or thinking "correction", I'm now looking at 1u or 5gms as "tweaks" or "nudges".
 
Peppergirl said:
OK, I could probably have made it clearer (BTW glucose fine today). I just felt that correction sounded like I'd done something wrong, but realignment was just putting my level where it should be :) was trying to think of a better way of phrasing it.
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What a great thread! Hi @Peppergirl , this post has really got my attention - I think you make an incredibly good, poignant and well-thought-out point.

Language is just so, so crucial in all manner of situations, but in particular in the management of a longterm health condition.

I always got 'good girl!' as a child if my blood sugar was between 3 and 8 (as the guidelines were back then). Above that, no 'good girl', just silence. Because numbers 'outside the lines' weren't right. I grew up often not feeling like a 'good girl'. I wasn't actually IN trouble - my parents were absolutely lovely and so, so supportive - but oh boy, it felt 'wrong' when I didn't get the automatic 'good girl'. I mean if you're not 'good', does that mean you're 'bad'? I certainly thought so.

In mental health there is a terrifying, terrifying word. It's 'section'. And 'sectioning'. Imagine a person being told 'If you don't pull yourself together I will come back tomorrow and have you sectioned.' And imagine that that person had had no previous experience of the MH 'system', and hadn't ever come across the word, and had envisaged that they were going to be cut up into tiny pieces with a large knife the next day. Well, that would be enough for that person to abscond from the hospital and find their way home just so they could spend their last night in their own bed.
Reassuring epilogue: Although that person was sectioned (albeit not with the knife she had been imagining) she has recovered and is now safe, well and happy.

Pejorative language apportioned to healthcare conditions can, I feel, be very damaging. Thank you so much @Peppergirl for getting 'glucose realignment' out there. 'Correction' does describe I suppose what we're trying to achieve, but it's not a terribly positive word. So I'll take your alternative!

I shall be 'realigning my glucose' in future. Thank you.

Love Snapsy
:)
 
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