I had hand surgery on Monday. At noon, after not eating since 8 pm the night before, after managing the dawn effect upon waking, after judging how much insulin I could take without going low because I couldn’t eat or drink pre-surgery yet I had to walk to the subway and from the subway to the hospital, at noon my blood sugar was 107 mg/dl.

For anyone who understands type 1 diabetes 107 is celebratory, yet for a medical institution that spits out clinical data, it is abnormal because it is about 99 mg/dl. That’s data without context. That’s data without human eyes, without stories, without relationship. That’s sad and disappointing and shades of the future for healthcare, already “care” slipping away.