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One Man's Fight Against His Diabetes Destiny
It was about eight years ago when my dad, John Zaleski, first noticed something was off. I’ve always thought of him as someone with an infinite reserve of energy, the sort of stamina that allowed him to work his white-collar job and fix something in the house once he clocked out. This feeling he developed, as he recounted to me this past summer, was different: He felt shaky and fatigued for no obvious reasons. Weariness seemed to attack him out of nowhere. It was a true puzzle—one he started trying to solve when he bought a glucometer, a small device that measures glucose levels. It’s the kind of thing he does, searching for answers to things, even in unlikely places. The morning after he picked up the device, he checked his glucose and saw the reading at 218. For perspective, a fasting glucose level of 126 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood is considered the threshold for diabetes. The number shocked him. Dad is a lean guy, a trim 150 pounds at five-foot-seven. He regularly exercises (pushups, situps, miles and miles clocked on his Concept2 rowing machine) and works as a volunteer critical-care paramedic with the local fire company and health system in addition to his corporate gig at a large health-care company…where he uses a standing desk. After registering his own fasting glucose, he quickly scheduled an appointment with his primary-care doctor, who ordered blood tests that confirmed the diagnosis: type 2 diabetes. “I was stunned,” says Dad, who recently turned 60. “I then realized that what I was feeling made sense, but I had no idea that it was diabetes.”
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