Jeanne: Jeanne wanted a pancreas transplant. But she worried about what the transplant team would think of her. Living with diabetes, she had always kept a record of blood sugar levels. But it had many blank spaces. "Will they think that I neglect my health?" she thought. "Maybe I can tell them that on some days, I was just too busy to test."
But Jeanne knew the truth. She avoided testing on days when she had eaten improperly. It worried her to see a high blood sugar. Her hand would tremble when she wrote an abnormal result in her record. Whenever she opened her book, all that she would see were the one or two abnormal results. This made her feel very uneasy. She had learned that it was better not to test at all on those days that she knew beforehand, the result would make her anxious.