A1C’s and what’s causal… (a metaphor)?
Thank you one and all for your thoughts & perspectives on this topic,
I know I beat a ~dead horsey~ but I will still loudly contend pushing the A1C too low is immediate and dangerous. Yet choose the other direction and the “long term problems” are ~sure and certain~ by all accounts. There is an apt (I think) story out of Chinese philosophy which describes the perils of a man on a cliff who for all intents and purposes could easily be ~one of us~, a diabetic.
A villager on his way to collect water is being hunted by a pair of tigers. He is chased to the edge of a local cliff running for his life, seconds ahead of his hunters. The man climbs down a small vine in the cliff’s face dangerously rapidly… a hairbreadth ahead of the enraged tiger now above him. Only realizing half-way down that its mate awaited him below. The rough cliff face giving no handhold, and his meager weight climbing down begins sawing the vine against the rocks, begins to shred.
At precisely that moment he notices tigress below, he sees a wild strawberry buried in the cliff face. What does he do ??? <Playful Smile
Jeff