...then keep it to yourself.
I've tried using this adage with a few doctors, but it seems they have a problem with manners. If I never hear hemogolbin A1c ever again I'll be a happy person. For the ND (non-diabetics) the "A1c" is the number that the docs can use against you. (Of course, when it's a good number you walk out with a high 5 from them.) The A1c tracks the level of sugar in your blood over a 3 month period -- truth or consequences, as it were. No amount of "but that can't be right, I swear I've been really, really good" is going help.
There was a time when I didn't mind learning my A1c value...it was a long time ago and in another dimension. I miss those days. I am seeing glimpses of that place, it's still in the distance but I'm seeing the path. Its just that I hate that path.
Ugh, what a path it is, it should be outlawed, at least in my opinion. You might guess that my opinion isn't quite the same as my docs opinion. Sometimes it's like Cain and Able, Holyfield vs
